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Ministers flout CM's directives, go missing from Civil Secretariat 11/16/2015 11:59:39 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 16: Ministers seem to care little for the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's directive to remain present in their offices in the Civil Secretariat for speedy redressal of people's grievances. A recce of the Civil Secretariat by Early Times found most of the Ministers missing from their offices even on designated days leaving the Civil Secretariat deserted. The Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had directed the entire PDP-BJP Minister to remain in the Civil Secretariat for the redressal of the people's grievances. It was learnt on Monday that Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu had not been seen for several days and similarly the Minister for Roads and Buildings Altaf Bukhari too was not in his office. "When a Minister is absent, lower and middle-rung staffs tend to bunk work and people coming from far-off places suffer," said Harmeet Singh a disappointed aged person who had came to visit Finance Minister. Even if the PDP and BJP Ministers are in the capital town Jammu they hardly attend their offices. "Majority among the Ministers stay out of their offices on one pretext or the other. The visitors who come from far off places for resolving their problems have to wait hours together outside the offices of Ministers but leave disappointed in the evening to their respective places," one of the official of the Secretariat said on condition of anonymity. He said that there are always long queues of people, seeking entry into the Secretariat. "Even a couple of Ministers who come here sit in their retiring rooms for a couple of hours and retreat to their cozy homes. Even if a Minister comes to his offices, he immediately summons any senior officer and sits with him in the retiring room for hours without caring for those who come from far off places to see them" Ismail Ahmad who had come from Srinagar to meet Health Minister said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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