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| Financial crunch forces CM to seek Central funds for rehab of flood-hit | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu does not seem to have fulfilled his commitment on not visiting New Delhi with a begging bowl. In view of the severe financial stringency that has left the state government unable to carry out relief and rehabilitation of the flood affected, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has decided to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for securing funds. The state government has no funds for carrying out relief and rehabilitation programme for flood affected people in Jammu and Kashmir. The previous government had submitted a Rs 44,000 crore rehabilitation and relief plan to the government of India with the request that the requisite funds may be released which could help people in distress.
Now the state has faced another flood and landslide fury in which so far 23 people have been killed and government and private property worth crores of rupees damaged.
In a way Drabu has not violated his commitment which he had made during the time he presented his first budget proposals to the Assembly on March 22. He has not gone to Delhi with a begging bowl. He has sent the Chief Minister to New Delhi to seek additional funds from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for various projects, especially for implementing short-term and long term flood control plan. Presenting his first budget in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Drabu said the government would not seek any financial assistance from the Centre other than what was provided for in the Constitution for all special category States.
In fact the only thing that motivated and prompted Mufti to visit New Delhi where he will meet Prime Minister was his fears that he too may face peoples' ire, as Omar had faced, if the present PDP-led government failed to implement compensation and rehabilitation plan for flood affected people. Majority of those whose houses had been damaged in September last floods were yet to receive any compensation and those whose houses have suffered damages in the current floods await compensation.This way the task of implementing the rehabilitation plan is very tedious in view of the financial stringency being faced by the state government.
Normally the PDP-led government would have not suggested to the government of India to release funds for flood affected people on the basis of the loss assessment report which had been submitted by the previous NC-Congress coalition government. But this time the PDP leadership decided to support the NC-Congress assessment report so that the state government received some financial assistance that could help flood hit people.
In the absence of funds the state government is yet to frame short-term and long term flood control plan and reports indicate that the government of India may ask some of its experts to prepare a proper flood control plan for Jammu and Kashmir.
Drabu's assessment in based on his wishful thinking. A state like Jammu and Kashmir,which has very poor internal resources, cannot but seek funds for plan and non-plan sectors. Drabu knows it well that a state where for meeting wages of employees the state government has to seek funds from the Centre has to keep the begging bowl in its hands. |
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