Subsidies to be reviewed in totality

Even as the process to review populist subsidies in Punjab is under way,the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made it clear on Wednesday that the review should be carried out in totality and not in a selective way.

Even as the process to review populist subsidies in Punjab is under way,the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made it clear on Wednesday that the review should be carried out in totality and not in a selective way.

The BJPs stand will make the task of the review committee harder. The state BJP is unwilling to see its core constituents,essentially the urban voters,being taxed and the others left out through the subsidy mode. Amid reports on octroi being imposed again,state BJP president Rajinder Bhandari said,The SAD-BJP Government is in no mood to re-impose octroi.

The state Governments decision to review its subsidies,essentially out of the compulsion to impose fiscal discipline in the state to avail of monetary gains from the centre,comes within days of its announcement of Rs 1,300-crore additional subsidy to the power board.

Information commissioner assesses ground situation

State Information Commissioner DS Kahlon visited Mansa district on Wednesday and held meetings with public information officers,the superintendent of police and the deputy commissioner. Kahlon said on a visit to Jhuneer he found no official peon in the BDPO office,and complained to the DC,who ordered a probe.

The BDPO office in Jhuneer and SDM and treasury offices in Sardoolgarh did not even have boards mentioning details of PIOs and APIOs that are mandatory under the RTI Act, he added. Besides,many officers did know about the legislation,he added. Some of the officers sought his advice on how to deal with frivolous complaints. The SIC advised officials not to entertain third party complaints that involved domestic problems and invade the privacy of a resident.

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Subsidies to be reviewed in totality

Even as the process to review populist subsidies in Punjab is under way,the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made it clear on Wednesday that the review should be carried out in totality and not in a selective way.

Subsidies to be reviewed in totality