news details |
|
|
| Change leaves many behind | | | Newly elected chairpersons of Block Development Councils (BDCs) in Jammu & Kashmir are all set to get empowered. Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu recently announced that they would get the honorarium that would be highest in the country and they would also get the security cover according to threat perception.
The Government of India (GoI) changing its J&K policy is an indication that it wants to empower the people at the grass root level. Soon after the BJP pulled out from the PDP-led government in Jammu & Kashmir in June 2018, the first step the GoI took was that it geared up the men and machinery for Panchayat polls in erstwhile state of J&K. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement about the Panchayat polls in J&K from the ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day.
After the PM made the announcement, Kashmir-centric leaders claimed that holding elections in the Valley was not possible due to volatile situation. They even stated that the Panchayat polls won't serve any purpose till the talks are held with so-called stake holders. During the past one and a half year, situation in Jammu & Kashmir has changed drastically. When elections for Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies were announced in 2018, the then Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Satya Pal Malik approached former Chief Ministers of J&K-Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and requested them to participate in these elections. But none of these leaders paid any heed to the requests. Instead they advised Malik to get these polls deferred.
After boycotting these elections, National Conference and People's Democratic Party created a notion that these polls without their participation won't make any difference on the ground. But their leaders and workers revolted against the decision of their respective parties and took part in these elections as independent candidates.
Since the day Panchayat representatives have been elected, the GoI has been emphasizing on empowering them. The elections for BDCs is a part of taking the empowerment process ahead and the system is being put at place which would ensure that genuine grievances of the people are looked into and the money which comes into the Union Territory of J&K for the development works is utilized in a proper way.
Changing scenario in Jammu & Kashmir indicates that politicians, who called the shots in J&K for the past 70 years have been cut to size and they are becoming irrelevant with each passing day. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
