Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference State Women’s Wing President Advocate Shameema Firdous on Saturday said that bureaucracy has failed to bring in constructive changes on the ground, while the people continue to suffer for want of effective administration.
This, she, according to the NC spokesperson, said while addressing a one-day workers convention organized by the party’s women’s wing at Pulwama. Among others Provincial President Women’s wing Er. Sabiya Qadri, Provincial Secretary Aisha Jameel, District President Women’s Wing Pulwama Shabnum Nazir also addressed the workers. District President Pulwama Gh Mohiudin Mir, senior leader Mohammad Khalil Bandh were also present.
In her address, Shameema Firdous said that the Back to Village (B2V) exercise is just an eyewash aimed to give the false impression that the government was alive to the difficulties of people. “The previous B2V exercises have failed to deliver on the ground in wake of any effective follow-ups. The entire exercise has only disturbed the administration at ground level and has failed to rise up to the expectations of the people. Even the members of the ruling party are decrying the dearth of work for various public works in their Panchayat Halqas. Had the administration been serious, it would have undertaken follow-up of the previous B2V programmes,” she said.
“We have seen that B2V programmes have not been delivered at the ground level. If we go from place to place there is no imprint at all. We find people of marginalised sections with the same problems. Programs and schemes on affordable housing are not implemented at all and safe drinking water is available for less than 40 percent of the population,” she said, adding that people have become increasingly conscious of the absence of a popular government. “The whole exercise is to marginalise the political workers at the grassroots level. It is bureaucracy trying to create an alternative parallel to conventional politics, but they are not able to do it.”
In her address Er Sabiya Qadri said, “Let alone solving the real challenges faced by people such exercises aren’t able to address issues like paucity of drinking water, ration shortage, erratic power supply, crumbling rural road infrastructure, managing better washrooms for the schools, ensuring staff to the rural PHCs, dispensaries and primary health centres. The administration is unwilling to face the facts. Such exercise is a waste of time, resources and money. What good does it hold to gather all the administrative heads at one place. The process only brings the entire administrative machinery to a grinding halt.”
