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| Srinagar admn under CM's radar for poor performance | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 20: The official machinery in the summer capital of Srinagar is under scanner of Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, who during her recent surprise inspection here found that her directives were not being adhered to.
Sources said some of the officials from the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Revenue, and South city police are likely to face axe in the coming days for their "poor performance."
Sources in the Chief Minister's Secretariat said prompted by poor public feedback, Mehbooba on the evening of June 17 went for a surprise inspection of areas including the Hari Singh High Street and Maharaja Bazar only to discover that her directives on providing better facilities to the people were not being adhered to.
Since 1990s, given the traffic jams, rarely any Chief Minister has visited this area. But for Mehbooba, it remained her priority.
The Chief Minister, who was sitting at her Civil Secretariat office chambers suddenly got up and left for an inspection. Sources said she didn't tell anyone where she was going but on reaching Jehangir Chowk she asked the cavalcade to move towards Hari Singh High Street.
Insiders said her security grid couldn't believe that the Chief Minister wanted to drive down the route which is so congested that even private vehicles avoid it. As the motorcade reached HSHS chowk, Mehbooba started feeling that public complaints were genuine.
Much against her recent directives that no pavement vending be allowed on busy routes, she could see the streets flooded with Raida Walas. The slow pace of public transport vehicles driving down the road and the roadside display of goods by shopkeepers was equally an obstruction in the smooth flow of traffic.
As her motorcade drove towards Hazuri Bagh, the Chief Minister could see things in mess. Given the hindrances in smooth flow of traffic, her motorcade was struggling to move ahead.
But Mehbooba, as per witnesses, kept looking around silently. "From pavement vending to roadside display of goods to heaps of garbage, she (Mehbooba) didn't get any good first hand account of the ground situation," the sources said.
However the only department which the CM found active was traffic cops who were trying their best at their beats.
After some 15-minutes of drive from HSHS to Hazuri Bagh, the distance which should otherwise have been covered in 2-minutes, Mehbooba instantly phoned a senior official to express her dismay.
Sources said in no time a team from Police Station Sher-Garhi rushed to the spot and started beating the pavement vendors.
By sunset a team of SMC officials reached the spot to clean from the streets, a job which should have been done much earlier, in the morning.
But from administration side it was crying over the spilt milk. Sources said Chief Minister has taken a serious note of the "administrative failure." "A meeting is being called this week to decide fate of officials including some Tehsildars who were found performing poor," said a senior official asking not to be named. |
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