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Turmoil brings windfall for PDP leader Transfer industry thrives amid anarchy in Valley 8/31/2016 12:12:33 AM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Aug 30: A senior member of the ruling People's Democratic Party is virtually running a transfer industry in the Valley, taking advantage of the ongoing turmoil, and manages prize postings of ineligible and inexperienced officials. Early Times has learnt from reliable sources that the politician who lost the 2014 assembly elections to a Congress candidate with a huge margin is taking money from officers for their transfers and postings. Sources said that many officers who are said to be juniors have paid huge amount to the politician for prize postings as a result of which some of the junior and inexperienced revenue officials were awarded prized and sensitive postings. They said that a Tehsildar who was holding charge of a far off administrative unit in Larnoo area of south Kashmir's Kokernag was shifted and posted as in-charge Tehsildar north Srinagar. "This Tehsildar was shifted to Srinagar and given a highly sensitive posting because he gave money to the PDP politician," said a top revenue official whishing anonymity. He said that several senior officers were transferred only because of their allegiances to a particular political group and lobby in PDP. Sources said that because of the powerful politician's intervention, government preferred juniors for highly sensitive areas like Bijbehara, which is Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's hometown. Meanwhile, sources also informed that the politician is now pressing for shifting of many officers of PWD, PHE and PDD departments who haven't obliged him in the past. Pertinent to mention here that the politically motivated transfers of the government officials are making the chances of effective governance bleak and also minimizing the chances of ending the ongoing cycle of violence in the Valley.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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