Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday stated the hybrid mannequin of governance within the Union Territory is to not anybody’s benefit and techniques work higher when there may be single centre of command.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah addressed a press convention in Srinagar on Thursday and stated the hybrid mannequin of governance within the Union Territory was to not anybody’s benefit as techniques work higher when there may be single centre of command. (HT file picture)
“Obviously, dual centres of power are not to anyone’s advantage. If dual centres were effective tools of governance, you would see it everywhere,” Abdullah informed reporters at a media interplay in Srinagar when requested concerning the hybrid mannequin of governance in Jammu and Kashmir.
The chief minister stated whereas there have been “differences of opinion on some issues”, there was no confrontation with the Raj Bhavan.
“Systems work better when there is single centre of command. For the UT, the dual centres of command are inbuilt. There have been differences of opinion on some issues, but not on the scale at which it is being speculated. Such reports are just a figment of imagination,” he stated.
Abdullah stated the enterprise guidelines for the federal government can be framed after correct consultations after which despatched to lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha.
The chief minister stated he was not the one to inform folks to not go to the Raj Bhavan. “I would say people should go wherever they can get their issues resolved be it in the Raj Bhavan or with the local MLA or the officers,” he stated.
‘Need to save our jobs’
Requested about his get together MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi’s protest over the difficulty of reservation, Abdullah stated the Nationwide Convention (NC) is a democracy and anybody has the best to talk.
“The NC was often accused of being a family party. But we have always said that we are a democracy and everyone has a right to speak. Look at the positive side, how much change has come. From a time when protesting was considered illegal, people protested and reached my door. We had a meeting afterwards,” he stated, referring to the anti-reservation protest close to his residence in Gupkar which was joined by Mehdi.
So far as reservation is anxious, I informed the delegates that the cupboard sub-committee has been framed, the chief minister stated.
The get together anticipated that Mehdi, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, would maintain the same protest for the restoration of statehood in Parliament as effectively, he added.
Abdullah, nonetheless, stated whereas we are able to struggle the reserved and open class struggle, “but first we have to save our jobs”.
“What will we do when people from other places come here for jobs?” he requested.
Hanging a stability
Responding to a query on the row over land acquisition for a campus of the Nationwide Institute of Know-how (NIT) in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, the chief minister stated there’s a must discover a stability between growth and defending our productive agriculture land.
“We cannot increase our land, development cannot stop. We will try to ensure that development projects are on non-productive lands as much as possible. I met a delegation from Pulwama and I said to them that if you don’t want NIT in Pulwama, we will take it to some other location,” Abdullah stated.
“Not everyone is against development. There are other areas where we can locate this NIT. We will have to find a balance between development and protecting our productive agriculture land,” he added.
On the opposition’s allegation a couple of satellite tv for pc colony being constructed, the chief minister stated there is no such thing as a such proposal on his desk as he takes care of the division.
“The people who are making most noise were the ones who talked about greater Jammu and Srinagar,” he stated.
Abdullah, nonetheless, stated townships can be constructed for decongesting the Srinagar metropolis.
“It is for those people who want to move to the suburbs. There are four to five families living in one house in downtown (Srinagar),” he added.