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| Amendment to Prevention of Corruption Act in Sixth year! | | NC's political hypocrisy exposed | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 14: In yet another glaring example of its political hypocrisy, the NC led Coalition Government of the state is likely to bring an amendment bill which according to it is aimed at making the existing Prevention of Corruption Act more tenacious. This was announced by the Minister for Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather in the State Legislative Assembly the previous day.
The very intent and timing of such a move have come under public scrutiny and many are seeing this as yet another initiative taken with coming elections in mind as coalition government has proposed to bring the bill in its last Assembly session. "For over five years of its term, the Coalition Government was patronizing the corrupt officers by giving them promotions and plum postings and the politicians made huge fortunes while government sat on consent to prosecute them," said a retired senior government officer adding that the National Conference has taken the sense of strong sentiment against corruption amongst the electorate across the country and hence has proposed such a bill to project itself as a champion against corruption.
Ironically, while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had been reiterating his commitment to root out corruption, there are many examples wherein government has patronized corrupt officers by giving them promotions, extensions and plum postings in cabinet meetings chaired by the Chief Minister himself.
While Jammu and Kashmir has been rated second most corrupt state in the country after Bihar,The Bihar government, showing zero tolerance against corruption, has sacked 95 corrupt officials in first two months of this year and will dismiss 129 in March.
In the last one month, the Economic Offences Unit of Bihar Police raided half-a-dozen officers in Patna and elsewhere in the state and found assets worth crores of rupees disproportionate to their known income. The Bihar government has initiated the process of confiscating property of half-a-dozen officials including IAS and IPS officers and a treasury clerk in Patna and handed them over to government schools. On the contrary, the J&K government has slept over the consent required to prosecute many officers and politicians who have been accused in the cases of corruption during the last five years.
It is pertinent to mention here that Omar Government generated lot of expectancy amongst the people of the state by announcing that a list of corrupt officers of the state shall be made and accountability shall be fixed against them, but rather than fixing the black sheep, the government gradually fixed the accountability institutions of the state. |
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