National Conference Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana today exhorted the party cadre to reach out to the people at grass roots level and help seek redressal to their problems on various fronts and stand by them.
“National Conference has all along remained in the forefront for safeguarding interests, identity and dignity of the people and the role of cadre in this regard cannot be undermined”, Provincial President Mr Devender Singh Rana said while addressing the party’s Provincial Party functionaries at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this afternoon.
Mr Rana exuded confidence that the party workers and functionaries will play their designated role by highlighting the issues of immense public importance at appropriate forums for expeditious redressal.
Mr Rana expressed concern over acute developmental inertia and alarming jobs crunch and called for major course correction to put Jammu and Kashmir on the path of recovery.
“Utility services at ground zero have almost come to grinding halt with fund starvation in key sectors adding to the miseries of people”, Provincial President said.
Mr Rana referred to hiccups in the implementation of various programmes, saying shortage of funds hampered the development particularly in the rural far flung areas. Same is the case with other service sectors, which are in shambles due to lack of funds and absence of monitoring at various levels, he said, adding that the so-called reach out has become meaningless without assessing ground realities and redressing the problems. He called for a meaningful reach out with focus on keeping the developmental engine moving.
The Provincial President said every effort will be counter-productive unless understanding ground realities, which are far uglier than the rosy picture being painted on daily basis. The people in rural, semi urban and urban areas are suffering and mere assurances or hand-outs won’t bail out the administration from its responsibilities. He said the scenario in far flung areas is far worst and calls for immediate governmental attention.
The Provincial President also sought filling up of vacant posts in various government departments on fast-track basis to address the burgeoning unemployment problem in Jammu and Kashmir. He called for adequate openings for skilled and unskilled work-force, saying job crunch has pushed them to the wall. To address their genuine concerns, he hoped the administration will adopt a pro-active policy in completing the recruitment process at various levels in a time bound manner.
Prominent among those present in the meeting included Ajay Kr. Sadhotra, Surjeet Singh Salathia, Rattan Lal Gupta, Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Javed Ahmed Rana , Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo, Babu Rampaul, Abdul Gani Malik, Dr. Chaman Lal Bhagat, Qazi Jalal Ud Din, Brij Mohan Sharma, Ajaz Jan, Rahin Daad, Haji Mohd Hussain, Master Noor Hussain, Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Mohd Iqbal Bhat, Vijay Bakaya, Bimla Luthra, Deepender Kour, Satwant Kour Dogra, Jugal Mahajan, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Anil Dhar, Dr. Gagan Bhagat, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Ch. Haroon, Vijay Laxami Dutta, Chander Mohan Sharma, Som Nath Khajuria, Mohinder Singh, Swaran Latta, Vipan Pal Sharma, Pardeep Bali, Rashida Begum, G.H Malik, Bharti Sharma, Tarshem Khullar, Raj Kapoor, Nar Singh, Iftkhair Choudhary, Ch. Rehmat Ali, Mohinder Gupta, Ajeet Kumar Sharma, K.K Bakashi, Sunil Verma, Ram Parshotam, Deyal Singh, Shabir Ahmed Choudhary, Naresh Bittu, Mohd Arif Mir, Som Raj Taroch, Ashok Dogra, S.Tejinder Singh, Dr. Amina, Vijay Khajuria, Raja Rafiq and others.