Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 9: J&K National Conference today said that Government is window-dressing its failures on creation of employment opportunities and bridging development deficit in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pointing out to the extensive puff-jobs and window dressing done to hide its failure by the incumbent Government to hide its ineptitude, senior party leader Ali Mohd Sagar said people are suffering on different counts ranging from inflation, development deficit, to rising unemployment and administrative inertia.
Addressing delegations of Party’s parent body, YNC, Women’s wing functionaries from Kulgam, Sopore, Kangan and Hazaratbal, who had called on him here at party office Sagar said, “The absence of democracy and long spell of bureaucratic rule has obstructed the development prospectus in the entire region. The bureaucrats are not subjected to any kind of accountability. The airdropped coterie of officials at the helm in J&K seems to care little about the issues concerning the people,” he said.
He stated that the unrelated bureaucracy look without seeing, listen without hearing and proclaim decisions, changing people’s lives without taking cognizance of the wishes and aspirations of the people. “The failure to give impetus to the infra-projects, ineptitude to cope up with the aftermaths of the rampaging two successive lock downs post August 5, 2019 has badly exposed the failures of those managing J&K. We only saw officials change their stripes and do photo-ops. The over centralization of the centre in Jammu and Kashmir is pushing one size for all kind of measures with little consideration people’s aspirations,” he said.
Remarking on the repressive, lopsided and heavy taxation being levied on people, Sagar said, “The insensitiveness of the Government can be ascertained by the way people are being overburdened with taxes ranging from toll taxes, property taxes, to houses taxes. The new taxation regime is hurting our marginalized farmers, salaried class and other weaker sections of the society; when it comes to giving the money back to people the Government turns blank. Work on all the major road, sewage, drainage, health and education projects has been put into a cold storage. The plight of agriculture and its allied sectors is equally depressing,” he said.
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