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| State Govt must withdraw proposed amendments in Panchayati Raj Act: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu July 30: Asserting that no amount of logic or arguments could justify the proposed amendments in the Panchayati Raj Act, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Former Minister today urged upon the state government to withdraw the same once for all.
Former minister said that the BJP-PDP govt rather than proceeding further to respond to the queries raised by the Governor for justifying its amendment proposal in the PR Act, should honour the general public sentiment and withdraw the said amendments in view of wide spread public clamour against the same.
While addressing various public meetings in villages Kakrai, Balpur, Tanani, Bilaspur of Ramnagar constituency, Harsh Dev Singh made a fervent appeal to the Governor to take into consideration the public resentment against the proposed amendments and to refuse his assent to the bill under Sec 78 of the constitution of J&K in case the state govt. persists with its decision on the issue.
Pointing towards the widespread condemnations and all round opposition to the proposed amendments to the bill, he said that authoritarianism had no place in the democratic system. "The proposed changes in the Panchayati Raj Act having been disapproved by Panchayats besides various social and political organizations, there was no rationale or logic to proceed with the said amendment bill which needed to be rejected by the Governor, he said. He further said that the govt was resorting to such tactics only to delay and deny the democratic rights to the rural populace and to deprive them of their legitimate rights of local self governance. Accusing the incumbent government for its highly regressive move to sabotage the empowerment of rural people, Harsh Dev divulged that the newly proposed amendments would completely transmute the structure of Panchayati Raj as envisaged under the existing Act. He added that indirect elections of sarpanches and election of one Chairman for a cluster of blocks violated the spirit of the Act which diluted the meaning and scope of local self government. He further regretted that Panchayats had been facing acute financial crisis and the neglect of the govt. to constitute a separate Finance Commission as envisaged under law had only made the situation worse and demanded immediate constitution of the commission for according financial autonomy to the Panchayats and also sought the implementation of 3-tier Panchayat Raj system with elected Panchayats, elected Block councils and elected District Planning and Development Board with due representation to women, SC and ST's. Prominent those who spoke on the occasion included Dharam Singh Bittu, Makhan Lal Sharma, Karnail Singh, Mohd Saleem, Kewal Sharma, Sugar Din, Baldev Singh Mankotia, Purshotam Singh, Sukhjit, Jeevan Gupta, Mohan Lal Gupta and Ved Parkash. |
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