Author: Fida Iqbal

We have a system steeped in the mud of corruption Probity appears to have moved out to the back-burner and politicians do not care a fig for values! There can be many reasons for political degradation and of late the coalition politics has plagued the system not only with increased levels of corruption but pretentiousness…

Do we really have a disaster management in Kashmir? Disasters and natural calamities are regular features of planet earth and its human life. Calamities like earthquake, floods and epidemics bring misery to mankind and rob mother earth of its riches. Almost every year disasters wipe out thousands; causing enormous damage to property and resources. Recent…

Many invisible hands were commanding the government. Omar Abdullah led coalition government completed three years on 5th of January this year and can be recognized as average exercise of authority. Apparently, a lawful government was in place and many initiatives for excellent governance were initiated with fair degree of success on many fronts. However, peace…

From shoddy bureaucracy over to opiated politics. While reading these lines people should not generalize the opinion about bureaucracy and the bureaucrats. Instead, they should utilize their positive thinking to separate the worst from the lot and isolate them forever. Bureaucracy, the most complex system of our administration, burdened with excessive red tape and thinning…

Schemes, plans, money and all, but no action As young kids our elders made us believe that Sopore and its adjoining areas will experience doomsday a decade earlier than the rest of the world. How far it proves correct, I could never get a satisfactory answer? But, the present state of affairs of our ecosystem,…

Fighting corruption is good, but we must not be pushed to chaos No soul on earth, and to be more precise in India will go against Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption and as civilized human beings no one should. But, for the last more than a year Anna has virtually hijacked the Indian parliamentary system…

Refreshing old memories of harmony and brotherhood Last week Jammu and Kashmir Government organized three days ‘Kashmir festival’ at India international centre (IIC) New Delhi. Amid usual inaugural pampering and customary valedictories the festival ended on 4th of December. Many cultural programs were part of the festival; art, cuisine, and other forms of Kashmiri culture,…

It needs a massive overhaul. Last week I missed my weekly column because of some unavoidable situation. One of my close relations required medical attention followed by some inevitable curative intervention. The whole schedule was more chaotic than challenging. As disciplined taxpayer I sought remedial help from the state run medical health system through proper…

Hope understand the pain of a common Kashmiri. Respected Omar Abdullah Sahib, I am unable to comprehend whether these lines of mine will go well with you or will offend you? In any case! I find it obligatory on my part to give you a feel of the ‘Ground Zero’ experienced almost every day by…

‘Fixed salary mode’ recruitment policy. In 1984 a novel recruitment approach was adopted to adjust an increased number of qualified agriculture technocrats in Jammu and Kashmir and the nomenclature of Rehbar Ziraat got added to the lexicon of Jammu and Kashmir public service sector. This was a politically motivated move to appease a visibly agitated…