Sir,
This has reference to an article “Time for decisive corrective measures” by Rajan Gandhi. The governance in Jammu and Kashmir has been facing a serious crisis of accountability for the last few decades. The acts of fraud, deceit, money laundering etc. shall continue till the accountability of those holding power is fixed. About 5200 Kanals of private land for developing a Satellite township at Sidhra was acquired by the Jammu Development Authority about 40 years back. Neither the township was developed nor the acquired land is there. Lakhs of kanals of land was available with the JDA but it did not develop any Housing Colony in Jammu during the last 30 years to provide residential plots to the public on reasonable prices. It allowed most of its land bank grabbed by the land mafia with the support of politicians and administration. The state and its apparatus, including the bureaucracy acted as a means of generating benefits for the particular group that controlled the erstwhile state. Rampant politicization of the bureaucracy is an outcome of this politics. Frequent transfers, arbitrary promotions and appointments became the norm. The weakness brought out in the above article point to the urgent need to revisit current conceptualizations of civil services accountability.
Baldev Singh Chib
Channi Himmat Colony,
Jammu
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