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| “Provide relief of Rs 5000 pm to poor, unemployed, labour class”: Harsh Dev | | | 
EarlyTimes Report
Jammu, May 22: Referring to the govt’s announcement of providing 5 bedded Covid care centre in every Panchayat of J&K as yet another gimmick, Harsh Dev Singh chairman-JKNPP today questioned the steps taken and resources provided for in this regard by the UT administration till date. He said that the govt had made a mockery of itself by leaving the establishment of such care centres to Panchayats by directing them to divert Rs. one lac out of their respective development plans for the purpose. “While it is virtually impossible to establish even a cow shed with Rs. one lac amount, it was amusing to find the govt contemplating a five bedded care centre with just Rs. one lac and that too from Panchayat funds, out of which one bed was required to be oxygen equipped. The govt should rather concentrate on strengthening the existing rural infrastructure and provision of adequate staff medicines and equipments in village health centres majority of which had become defunct”, observed Singh. He was addressing a press conference in Jammu today.
Singh said that during his tour of various villages, the people requested for extension of free ration under PDS beyond May, June atleast till the end of 2021. This was extremely essential to save the poor, indigent and other BPL families from starvation. He called for monthly cash transfer of atleast Rs. 5,000 into the bank accounts of vulnerable sections including labourers, unemployed and other economically weaker sections to cope with the financial crisis faced by them during the ongoing pandemic. He sought the increase of employment provision under MGNREGA to a minimum of 200 days per Job card holder as against the existing 100 days as the migrant workforce was the worst hut and could not take to other states for earning their livelihood. The minimum wages under MGNREGA and other labour force needed to be enhanced to Rs. 375 as per the recommendations of Anoop Satpathy Committee which had not been implemented in J&K despite the centres’ repeated assurances of extending the central pay scales, allowances and other incentives to the new UT. |
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