Srinagar: National Conference on Tuesday demanded a high-level inquiry by an independent agency into the slew of mass illegal transfers across various departments in gross violation of established norms and procedures and said these transfers were being affected for political and other considerations.
“The only industry that has flourished in the area – as in the other areas of the State – in the last three years is the transfer industry in which hundreds of transfers have taken place on political and other considerations,” Senior National Conference Leader and Former Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather said.
“We demand the constitution of a commission of inquiry to probe hundreds of transfers that have been made illegally in contravention of established norms and procedures for political and other considerations where even class 4 employees and daily wagers have not been spared and are being shifted from one district to another on political basis. This has destabilized the entire administrative system,” he added.
Rather said that the state of the health department in the constituency is also a matter of grave concern as all three Sub-District Hospitals in the Constituency located at Chrar-e-Sharif, Pakherpora and Nagam are suffering due to gross neglect and misuse of the Hospital Development Fund which has been siphoned to pay wages to scores of individuals who have been appointed purely on a political basis by the present dispensation.
Castigating the Government over the dilapidated condition of most internal and link roads in the constituency, the Former Finance Minister said the Government had turned a blind eye towards repeated pleas by the people to take up crucial repairs and works on the road network in the area.
“In addition to the dilapidated road network in the area, almost all water supply schemes are defunct and this has been a source of misery and suffering for the people”, the Senior NC Leader said while addressing the workers’ meetings.
