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| After Poonch, Ramban DC makes voluntary disclosure of SRE | | Thousands of crores pumped into J&K as SRE still unaccounted | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: After the voluntary disclosure of Security Related Expenditure (SRE) in Poonch district, the deputy commissioner, Ramban, has also proactively disclosed the SRE details of his district from 2012 to 2014. It is pertinent to mention that on the direction of Divisional Commissioner Jammu , the Poonch DC had voluntarily disclosed the details about SRE on the official website of Poonch district administration.
The funds under SRE are constantly received by J&K Government from Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) from the year 1990 onwards. Under SRE from 1990 till 2015 March around 7000 crores have been provided to J&K Government under Relief & Rehabilitation (RR) and expenditure on Police , but the details about the expenditure are yet to be made public by the various public authorities which includes Divisional Commissioner Kashmir / Jammu , Relief Commissioner (Migrants) , Deputy Commissioners (except DC Ramban / Poonch).
During January 2015, Governor N N Vohra had given direction to all the public authorities to make disclosure of SRE. The order was issued by State's Home Department on the direction of Raj Bhavan when J&K state was put under Governor rule. New Delhi based RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak associated with Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) had sought details of SRE in J&K from Union Home Ministry last year . The details revealed that more than 500 crores had been spent on SRE under various heads from 2012 onwards in the state. The money was provided to Relief Commissioner Migrants , J&K Police , General Administration Department (GAD) , Revenue Department , Divisional Commissioners of Jammu / Srinagar under various head like relief for Kashmiri migrants including cash assistance , free ration , construction of two room tenements , ex-gratia relief , cash payment in lieu of appointment in Govt service , return and rehabilitation of migrants etc.
As a huge money was pumped into J&K with no accountability, Venkatesh sought the intervention of J&K Governor N N Vohra and wrote to him on 19/1/2015 . Venkatesh urged upon the Governor to direct all the departments in J&K which are associated with disbursing SRE funds to make the details of beneficiaries etc proactively available as mandated under section 4 (1) (b) of J&K RTI Act 2009. Taking cognizance of Venkatesh's complaint, the Raj Bhavan had directed Principal Secretary Home to make sure the proactive disclosure of SRE by all the departments.
J&K Police acted on this order only after more than four months and very recently the details have been uploaded on JKP's official website. While as other departments especially office of the Relief Commissioner Migrants which is the major beneficiary of SRE funds continues to violate the orders of the Governor. |
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