4 months after J&K govt formed, rules on power structure vis-a-vis LG likely soon

These rules volition clarify the role, responsibilities and powers of the Chief Minister, Cabinet ministers and Administrative Secretaries successful J&K vis-a-vis the LG. Essential for ensuring the creaseless functioning of the authorities successful a UT wherever determination are dual structures of power, the rules person been pending for 4 months, since Abdullah took implicit arsenic CM.

Ahead of the elections successful J&K, its archetypal since the abrogation of Article 370 and its downgrade to a UT, the Centre had enhanced the powers of the LG by amending the ‘Transaction of Business Rules’. Following this, powers successful matters related to the police, nationalist order, All India Services, and transfers and postings were vested successful the LG.

In his gathering with Shah, Abdullah is learnt to person besides raised the contented of sidesplitting of a motortruck operator successful Baramulla, Kashmir, past week, aft the equipped forces opened occurrence astatine his conveyance for failing to halt astatine a checkpost. The allegations of torture successful constabulary custody starring to termination by a Gujjar younker successful Kathua precocious besides came up, sources said.

Recent panic attacks successful J&K was the different taxable of treatment betwixt Shah and Abdullah, a root said.

“Essentially, the Abdullah government’s stance is that the instrumentality and bid concern successful J&K cannot beryllium dealt with lone done the equipped forces. The Centre volition person to instrumentality radical on and bash it with their cooperation. So incidents similar these bash travel up successful discussions connected instrumentality and order,” the root said.

The CM is learnt to person besides raised the contented of definite improvement projects successful the UT and the Centre’s enactment for continuing investments successful the state. Sources said the Centre was inactive non-committal connected expanding incentives nether the New Central Sector strategy for Industrial Development for Jammu and Kashmir.

The strategy was announced successful 2021 with a full outlay of Rs 28,400 crore successful presumption of assorted taxation incentives to pull investments successful J&K. However, this allocation was soon exhausted against a unreserved of proposals, and the UT medication has projected to the Centre that the allocation beryllium accrued to Rs 75,000 crore.

Sources said that the bottomline was that determination was a wide transmission of connection betwixt the Abdullah authorities and Centre and that the Union Home Minister was receptive to suggestions and concerns expressed by the CM astatine their meetings.

“There is simply a precise affirmative ambiance successful the meetings and some the Centre and the authorities medication are connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic acold arsenic the region’s improvement is concerned,” a J&K authorities root said.