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| In cash starved JK, legislators want doles, sops | | Demand: hike in travel, health allowance, home and car loan | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 16: When the state is reeling under the severe economic crises with liabilities mounting to the whooping 8000 crores and people cry foul over absence of any relief, the legislators on Thursday met the chief minister, asking for more personal doles and sops.
The legislators submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister listing various demands including enhancement of salary, increase of Constituency Development Fund (CDF), increasing limit of home, vehicle and personal loan, hike in travel and health allowance, assigning unique identity mark to the official vehicles of the legislators, allotment of residential plots to legislators at Jammu and Srinagar and allocating vehicles to legislators during their travel to Delhi.
Sources privy to this meeting told Early times that the issue pertaining to three time hike in their salaries was also raked by the law makers, stating that the need of the hour is that they should be given salaries no less than 2.5 lac rupees a month besides other facilities.
What was surprising in Thursday's meet was that not even a single legislator, otherwise chosen by common people to address their woes, raised any issue that the people of the state are confronting. Reports informed that the shabby conditions of the roads across the state, electricity dearth, pending wages to the daily rated employees were the least talked issues during the meeting. "What we heard from the legislators was that they wanted VIP protocol to be accorded to them during all official functions. They want not to be stopped any where and wanted special symbols for their vehicles so that they could be recognised from a distance on roads," sources revealed, adding that though the chief minister gave patient hearing to what the legislators submitted but it was surprising indeed that no issue faced by the public was raised before the chief minister.
Pertinently, a delegation of All Party Legislators called on the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti and brought into her notice various issues pertaining to the state's law makers.
Headed by Satpal Sharma, MLA, the delegation comprised G M Saroori, Vikar Rasool, Hassan Ali Karbalai, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Dr Kamal Arora, Rajesh Gupta, Raja Manzoor, Gagan Baghat, Shakti Parihar and M Y Bhat.
The Chief Minister gave a patient hearing to the legislators and assured them that their genuine demands would be looked into for appropriate action.
Mehbooba said the legislators are not only an institution in themselves but they also act as the eyes and ears of the Government. She said the institution of legislators has to be given the due protocol. |
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