Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 26: Accusing the erstwhile BJP-PDP regime of utter failure in ensuring the implementation of even a single commitment made in the Agenda of Alliance (AOA) during its 3½ years rule, Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP chairman and former Minister, said that it’s only achievement was legalizing corruption in the State.
He said that the aborted rule witnessed a deep rooted culture of patronized corruption in the State with none to take cognizance of the public cries and frequent reports in the media of wanton irregularities and bungling in the working of the Government. Harsh was addressing huge public meetings in Bhatyari and Kaghote villages of Ramnagar constituency today.
Peeved over the negligible impact of various central schemes particularly MG-NREGA, IAY, DPAP, IWMP and TSP in the remote villages, Harsh Dev Singh regretted large scale pilferages and plunder of funds provided under these schemes in the said villages. He lamented that there was hardly any tangible impact of the aforesaid schemes on the ground with the public complaints regarding swindling of funds by corrupt officials having fallen on deaf ears.
He regretted non initiation of action against corrupt officials whose frauds had been established but were being sheltered due to patronage of political bigwigs and Departmental Officers who were said to be in league in the fishy bargains.
Singh expressed grave concern over the open loot of funds in Ramnagar by unscrupulous officers in R&B, PHE, RDD, MGNREGA and PMGSY in collusion with corrupt politicians in the name of repairs, restoration and maintenance without any tangible work executed on the ground. He said that allotment of contracts without tenders and departmental approvals for works costing crores, had blown the lid off the Government’s tall claims of “good governance” and “corruption free dispensation”.
Maintaining that corruption had become all pervasive in the system, Singh urged upon the Governor to tighten the noose around corrupt politicians and corrupt officers who had raised huge un-accounted wealth and disproportionate assets by abusing their position and authority.
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