Rural development
Rural development in Jammu and Kashmir has been a huge challenge for the successive governments and also to the administration which is now directly under the control of centre after the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded to union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and union territory of Ladakh.
Recently Manoj Sinha admitted that the absence of governance and inaccessibility of officials had long marred villages and said that the “Back to village” (B2V) programme was an attempt to bridge this gap.
Even the administration knows that there is a very limited working season both in Kashmir valley and in Ladakh region and it is very challenging for the engineering wings of the government to complete the infrastructure projects within the timeline.
Adding to all these complex problems is the bureaucracy of Jammu and Kashmir which has been very lax in fixing the responsibility for the delay in the projects and for the halfway projects left by different wings of the government in the past several years in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
Back to village programme is a sincere try by Manoj Sinha to set right the system in Jammu and Kashmir although he has admitted himself before the media that the system is rotten and most the officers do not know even the word accountability in Jammu and Kashmir.
He has promised the people of Kashmir an equitable development especially in the rural areas and has appealed people for greater participation in these programmes of the government not only to make the government accountable but also decided at the ground level what suits for their development and progress.
