JAMMU:- Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah threatened to resign during a cabinet meeting on Friday over the failure of cabinet sub-committee to submit its report on the creation of new administrative units in the state. As the meeting started in Jammu, sources said, Omar told deputy chief minister Tara Chand from the Congress who heads the committee for report about the new administrative units. To the reply that it was yet to be completed, Omar Abdullah, sources said, deferred the meeting till January 31. Omar said that if the report was not submitted before the cabinet by the next meeting that he will resign, the sources added. The NC-Congress alliance headed by Omar has been in news from the last a few weeks for proposal to create new administrative units of sub divisions, tehsils, C D blocks, niabats and patwar halqas besides rationalization of various administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir. This is happening in the last leg of this governments tenure. The step is indeed a forward movement though inordinately belated in taking the administration to the doorsteps of the aspiring people living in farflung and inaccessible areas who for even very petty matters have to cover and trudge along distance to approach the authorities for the purpose of solving their problems. The belated move at least may lay a foundation for working on it further by the next government in terms of arranging finance, infrastructure on the basis of well laid out policy of the present government. It is also appreciable that on the insistence of Congress party as the alliance partner, an attempt is being made to make the Ganai commission report of 2011 rather inclusive to serve the political purpose of some influential ministers. Hence the cabinet sub committee, comprising of ministers from both Congress and NC and MLAs of all the constituencies, constituted for the purpose, would have taken the view of all the concerned stakeholders in all the three regions- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, a senior official says.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:35:31 +0000
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