Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, July 30: The creation of new administrative units as proposed by Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai-headed committee, would involve whooping expenditure of over Rs 400 crore and Revenue Department is going to place a detailed note on human resource and infrastructure requirement before the State Cabinet anytime during next month.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that a team of the Revenue Department has completed the exercise of working out human resource and infrastructure requirement for setting up of 23 Sub-Divisions, 57 Tehsils, 63 CD blocks, 79 Niabats and 733 Patwar Halqas as proposed by Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai-led committee.
As per the estimates prepared on the basis of expenditure incurred during the past two years on creation of similar infrastructure at some places, whooping over Rs 400 would be required to give practical shape to the recommendations of the committee, sources, adding a detailed note relating to human resource and infrastructure requirement and financial implications would be placed before the State Cabinet for consideration and necessary action.
The non-recurring expenditure (infrastructure) for creation of 23 Sub-Divisions has been worked out at Rs 27.60 crore while as creation of 57 tehsils involves an expenditure of Rs 99.75 crore. Similarly, non-recurring expenditure vis-à-vis creation of 63 CD blocks has been worked out at Rs 37.8 crore. The creation of 79 Niabats would require an expenditure of Rs 47.4 crore while as setting up of 733 Patwar Halqas would involve an expenditure of Rs 146.6 crore.
“The approximate total non-recurring expenditure for creation of all these administrative units has been worked out by the Revenue Department at Rs 359.15 crore”, sources said.
As far as manpower/human resource requirement is concerned, sources said that financial implication vis-à-vis creation of bare minimum staff for one Sub-Division has been worked out at Rs 11.26 lakh per annum as such making all the 23 proposed Sub-Divisional functional would involve an expenditure of Rs 2.58 crore per annum. However, this would not include allowances.
For each proposed Sub-Division, the Revenue Department has suggested creation of one post each of SDM, Saddar Mohasib, Junior Scale Steno, Reader (GQs), Senior Assistant, Driver, two posts each of Junior Assistants and five Orderlies, sources informed.
Similarly, creation of human resource for 57 proposed tehsils would involve an expenditure of Rs 8.92 crore per annum as financial implication for each tehsil has been worked out at Rs 15.65 lakh per annum for creation of one post each of Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar, Office Qanoongo, BCG (GQ), STs GQ, WBN, Senior Assistant, two Office Patwaris, four Junior Assistants, six Orderlies etc.
For creation of 63 proposed CD blocks, the Government would require Rs 3.69 crore per annum (without allowances) as financial implication for one CD block with one BDO, Head Assistant, Junior Assistant, Computer Assistant-cum-Data Operator and four Orderlies has been worked out at Rs 5.86 lakh. Likewise, each Niabat would involve an expenditure of Rs 3.25 lakh per annum with staff of one Naib Tehsildar, Junior Assistant and Orderly as such the financial implication for setting up of 79 Niabats would be to the tune of Rs 2.57 crore, sources said.
For 733 Patwar Halqas, the Government would require an expenditure of Rs 8.65 crore as expenditure on each Patwar Halqa per annum has been worked out at Rs 1.18 lakh.
In response to a question, sources said, “it is up to the State Cabinet to work out mechanism to meet such a huge financial implication as setting up of new administrative units is the long pending demand of the people”.
The process of ascertaining the demands of people for new administrative units was actually started in 2007 when the Government had constituted a committee headed by former Chief Secretary of the State, Dr S S Bloeria. However, the report of the committee was termed as ‘inconclusive’ in 2009 and in January 2010, the committee was revived with Mushtaq Ahmad Ganai as its head and Varinder Kumar Gupta, Mumtaz Afzal, Abdul Aziz and S R Kapur as its members.
The committee submitted its report to the Government on July 14, 2011 following which the Chief Minister directed the Revenue Department to prepare a note after detailed examination of the recommendations for discussion and final decision in the Cabinet.
When the note was placed before the Cabinet in January this year it was decided to seek more details from the Revenue Department for taking holistic view of the entire issue. Accordingly, the Revenue Department was asked to work out human resource, infrastructure requirement and financial implications involved in setting up of new administrative units as proposed by the committee.
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