Tara Chand led CSC to submit report on Feb 1
JAMMU: The deadlock in the ruling National Conference-Congress alliance has been resolved for now, after directions from Congress High Command to the state unit to cooperate with chief minister Omar Abdullah.
Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand chaired a crucial meet of Cabinet Sub Committee (CSC) in Jammu, soon after his return from Delhi where he along with some other Congress leaders had been summoned by Congress high command.
The committee decided to present its final report – the bone of contention between the two coalition partners – before the next cabinet meeting scheduled for Feb 1, officials said here.
Minister for Higher Education Mohammad Akbar Lone, Minister for PHE and Flood Control Sham Lal Sharma, Minister for Planning & Development and Labour & Employment Mr. Ajay Sadhotra, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliament, Mir Saifullah and Minister for Tourism Ghulam Ahmad Mir attended the meeting.
The Deputy Chief Minister said CSC has been framed to ensure that new administrative units were formed in a transparent manner and extensive exercise on the mandate of creating new administrative units has been done. A comprehensive report keeping in view the feedback received from cross section of society would be submitted before cabinet for approval, he added.
An official spokesman said that the CSC discussed in detail various issues to be taken under consideration while deciding creation of new administrative units in different regions and sub-regions of the state.
The meeting decided that regional imbalance, area discrimination particularly in hilly and tough terrains as well as issues left unattended by the Ganai Committee would be taken under deliberation before finalizing the report.
Chand instructed the revenue secretary to submit the set of norms and minimum parameters to be followed for creation of new administrative units at different levels in the next CSC meeting.
Meanwhile after his meeting, Chand told a news agency that though Congress was in favour of creation of new administrative units in the state but we want to ensure that the untouched and left out areas are accommodated in the proposal,
He said the CSC will meet again on Jan 31 at 11am in Jammu to give finishing touches to the report.
A senior congress minister, attributed the urgency shown by the National Conference to go for implementation of proposal on new administrative units to the electoral interests of the party envisioned for the coming elections. The CSC was constituted by the chief minister to fill the gaps in the two reports on the subject. If they (NC) were so desirous to create new administrative units, then for what was the CSC constituted? the Congress minister privy to the details of Wednesdays CSC meeting told KNS.
Sources said that Chand later flew to the national capital to convey details of the meeting to the Congress high command. After attending the meeting, Mir Saifullah also left for Delhi reportedly to meet the National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah who is also in Delhi.
Sources revealed that the CSC during its visits across the state has received a demand for creation of 2133 additional administrative units in addition to the creation of 955 units recommended by Mushtaq Ganaie in his report. Pertinently, the state has 2103 existing administrative units at present.
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