RTI reveals only one AIIMS for J&K: claims NPP

Greater Kashmir: Jammu: Sunday, 06 September 2015.

Stirring fresh controversy over AIIMS for Jammu demand, National Panthers Party (NPP) today said that the government of India has no proposal to establish two premier hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir as claimed by the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).

“ In response to an  RTI applications submitted  by NPP in June , the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India has replied that only one AIIMS has been sanctioned for J&K State along with other states”, chairman NPP Harsh Dev Singh told reporters here today.

He said that NPP filed the RTI application on June 23, 2015 and the reply came on exactly after two months on August 26. He claimed that the reply clearly mentioned that only one AIIMS has been sanctioned for J&K State along with other states.

He said that  another ‘three point’ RTI application dated August 5  was filed by the Panthers Party ‘seeking a copy of the order by virtue of which 2nd AIIMS has been sanctioned for J&K and the concerned office provided the information dated 01.09.2015 replying that no such information existed as on date.

Singh said that keeping these two replies by the Ministry of Health ‘it was now become unambiguously clear that no orders had been passed for establishment of second AIIMS in J&K for Jammu region”.

He alleged that the BJP had ‘pusillanimously surrendered Jammu based issues before its partner PDP for the mere crumbs of power’.

NPP also slammed BJP led government at the centre for neglecting J&K in the  Smart City Project.   “BJP has been persistently drum beating about its developmental agenda all across the country but  despite  having governments both at the centre and in the State, the Saffron brigade has miserably succumbed and failed to deliver AIIMS to Jammu Division and  secure Smart City project for Jammu city”

He further informed  that ‘Panthers party leaders along with hundreds of activists shall be leaving for New Delhi today to hold the protest demonstrations outside the Parliament and the residence of Union Ministers on the issue of Smart City on Monday’.