STATE TIMES NEWS
SIGDI/MUGALMAIDAN: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC), Vice President, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori on Sunday undertook extensive tour of various localities of his constituency and listened to the issues of the people.
He visited areas of Bhata, Gowarian, Sigdi, Mulchitter, Mugalmaidan of Inderwal Constituency and interacted with the local residents.
MLA Inderwal was briefed by the people of Sigdi and Mugalmaidan areas regarding replacement of rotten and barbed polls and wires, early completion of blacktopping on Sigdi road, early commissioning of new water supply scheme Sigdi, filling of staff in various schools of Sigdi, hassle free ration supply, early clearance of MGNREGA and IHHL payments.
While addressing the public at various places, Saroori expressed deep concern at the financial crisis State is facing during the present regime. He said the PDP and BJP are pushing Jammu and Kashmir into a virtual financial emergency through its inefficient governance and politically motivated commitments.
Saroori said that various executive agencies but have not been paid for the development work done by them since 2015 because of an acute fiscal crisis. He said “It is a mismatch between revenues and expenditures; revenue inflows have been delayed even as committed expenditures have been made. This mismatch has been aggravated by unfunded liabilities of around Rs 3,000 crore that have been created by this government.” He further said developmental works have come to a grinding halt as the government according to media report owes more than one thousand crores to the contractors and suppliers. Urging the government to immediately release salaries, pension, GP fund and other dues to the employees, pensioners and contractors; Saroori said there are reports of even regular employees of not being able to get salaries on time. The casuals, daily wagers and seasonal labourers have not been given the salary for the last six months which is unfortunate on part of government.
At Mugalmaidan, Saroori distributed regularisation orders among four Rehbre-e- Taleem (ReTs) teachers of Inderwal Education Zone. Later dozens of PDP and BJP workers from Sigdi and Mugalmaidan joined Congress.
