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| Discrimination against Jammu region in matter of relief, rehabilitation intolerable: Harsh | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 22: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman Harshdev Singh has urged for strict compliance with the World Bank's anti corruption guidelines in the implementation of Rs. 1600 Crore Rehabilitation Project sanctioned for restoration of flood ravaged infrastructure in J&K.
According to press release, Singh called for strict vigil and monitoring mechanism so as to curb the all pervasive leakages, pilferages and scams that are closely associated with all relief and rehabilitation operations. He said that the state govt. has to discharge the onerous responsibility in this regard by ensuring that the relief and rehabilitation measures percolate down to the gross root level and that the available meager resources are put to the most optimum use.
Seeking further the maintenance of regional balance in the allocation of 250 million dollar World Bank funding, Harsh Dev Singh called for equitable share to Jammu region in view of huge losses sustained in this region which has unfortunately gone unattended and unaddressed. He said flood losses of Sept. 2014 and subsequent vagaries of weather caused colossal losses in Jammu region including loss of 250 lives which however went unheeded with the state govt. as well as the Central teams concentrating only on Kashmir. Pointing out towards the regional bias in the recommendations of the central teams, Harsh Dev Singh said that the Parliamentary Panel on water resources headed by Hukam Singh with T H Qarra MP from Kashmir as its member had announced Rs.401 crore flood Magt Project for Kashmir and assured its early sanction it already having been cleared by Central water commission. Not a word was however said about irrigation or flood projects for Jammu by the said committee. The said Parliamentary committee further assured to get early clearance from Union Water Resources Ministry for 2083 crore flood management project for Kashmir that would ensure construction of an alternate flood spill channel from Dogripura in district Pulwama upto wuller lake, he pointed out. In addition, he said, 79 crore project for conservation of Jhelum and Rs. 278 crore under JNNURM for de-congestion of old Srinagar city have already received the central nod to the complete neglect of Jammu region. Seeking due share in the World Bank grant of Rs. 1600 crore for Jammu region, Harsh Dev Singh cautioned that Jammu people would not take this humiliating treatment lying down and would vociferously oppose the discriminatory policies of the incumbent govt. on provision of relief to the flood victims of Jammu region. He said that unlike the victims in Kashmir who only lost their houses and other belongings, the Jammu flood victims suffered immensely including loss of lives, live stock, erosion of agricultural fields, landslides, heavy loss of public infrastructure, residential houses, standing crops, washing away of several villages like Saddal and Panjar having been completely washed leaving 40 dead in one village only.
Likewise, he said the loss to public infrastructure in Jammu region has been immense which called for rehabilitation measures on war footing. He however regretted that the meager funds provided earlier for the purpose were also swindled halfway by the middlemen with hardly any visible impact having been created on the ground. Calling for an effective surveillance mechanism for utilizing the sanctioned funds and ensuring complete transparency in their utilization, Harsh Dev Singh warned the state govt to refrain from divesting the already neglected Jammu region from its due and equitable share in the rehabilitation process. |
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