Dimapur, November 13 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has yet again charged the DAN government of landing the State into deadly debt-trap and huge liabilities, and that public money generously released by the Government of India has benefited just a handful of people in high places. NPCC stated that corruption, financial misuse and mismanagement have become the hallmark of the regional party’s mis-governance.
NPCC in a press communiqué issued by the Media Cell stated that the DAN government is riding on tight financial rope and has no money to pay the students’ post-matric scholarship, salary of work charged employees, terminal benefits of the government employees who were forced to retire. It stated that the government has been making lame excuses such as “documentation and logistic problems for non-payment but in reality its coffer has gone dry,” the NPCC alleged.
It further stated that the DAN government is unable to release the development funds for the State’s work programs and development activities have come to stand still, and that it has no money to maintain the State’s assets. The NPCC alleged that a major chunk of the non-plan fund has gone to debt servicing with the State’s outstanding loans crossing over Rs. 8000 crore; adding that the “DAN government is back to business of knocking the door of the Planning Commission of India (PCI) begging for special plan assistance (SPA).”
The NPCC claimed that whenever the issue of shortage of fund was raised, the DAN government rues that the State government is over-burdened with over 65% of the plan and non-plan expenditure going to the salaries of its employees as against the 35% restriction imposed by the 13th Finance Commission (TFC).
Despite these problems, the NPCC alleged that the DAN government has been surreptitiously indulging in rampant backdoor appointments. “The DAN government got the golden opportunity to bring down the plan and non-plan expenditure to the TFC’s prescribed limit of 35%. However, instead of streamlining the entire system of over-employment on need-based, it has resorted to over-indulgence in backdoor appointment, all with an eye for electoral gain in the next election,” the NPCC stated. It added that NPF has proved that regional party in power is nothing but freedom to corrupt with impunity and has lost all moral rights to continue.
NPCC in a press communiqué issued by the Media Cell stated that the DAN government is riding on tight financial rope and has no money to pay the students’ post-matric scholarship, salary of work charged employees, terminal benefits of the government employees who were forced to retire. It stated that the government has been making lame excuses such as “documentation and logistic problems for non-payment but in reality its coffer has gone dry,” the NPCC alleged.
It further stated that the DAN government is unable to release the development funds for the State’s work programs and development activities have come to stand still, and that it has no money to maintain the State’s assets. The NPCC alleged that a major chunk of the non-plan fund has gone to debt servicing with the State’s outstanding loans crossing over Rs. 8000 crore; adding that the “DAN government is back to business of knocking the door of the Planning Commission of India (PCI) begging for special plan assistance (SPA).”
The NPCC claimed that whenever the issue of shortage of fund was raised, the DAN government rues that the State government is over-burdened with over 65% of the plan and non-plan expenditure going to the salaries of its employees as against the 35% restriction imposed by the 13th Finance Commission (TFC).
Despite these problems, the NPCC alleged that the DAN government has been surreptitiously indulging in rampant backdoor appointments. “The DAN government got the golden opportunity to bring down the plan and non-plan expenditure to the TFC’s prescribed limit of 35%. However, instead of streamlining the entire system of over-employment on need-based, it has resorted to over-indulgence in backdoor appointment, all with an eye for electoral gain in the next election,” the NPCC stated. It added that NPF has proved that regional party in power is nothing but freedom to corrupt with impunity and has lost all moral rights to continue.
