Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June, 29: All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), an organization of elected Panchayat members has urged the Union Government to consider special financial package for Panchayati Raj Institutions in J&K.
President of the AJKPC, Anil Sharma has appealed Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitiey to give special attention to the rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir and most specific to the Panchayati Raj Institutions and consider a special financial package for Panchayats so that developmental works in the rural areas can be taken by the Panchayat representatives with due participation of the villagers.
Sharma said, the UPA Government had promised Rs. 10 lakh, package for each Panchayat of the State but due to the negligence of the State Government that package fell through but now as the Union Government is about to announce the budget 2014 it must provide adequate funds to the Panchayats to strengthen the basic democratic units in the trouble-torn State. “ He demanded that these funds be directly transferred by Union Government to the accounts of individual Panchayat bank accounts so that the State Government do not further divert or embezzle them.
AJKPC also demanded enhanced wages for the labourers engaged under MGNREGA, with the rising inflation it is not easy for a MGNREGA worker to feed his family with a meager amount of Rs. 145.
It also insisted that in all the Central schemes like PMGSY, NRHM, SSA, IAY for the rural areas, the Gram Sabha, elected Panchs and Sarpanchs be involved as it would be a larger Confidence Building Measure (CBM) amongst the people of Jammu and Kashmir and would be prudent in curtailing corruption.
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