Uttarakhand government with fiscal deficit of more than Rs. 70000 crores has spent Rs 1001 crores on publicity

Uttarakhand got a separate entity from Uttar Pradesh after forty three invaluable sacrifices of the movement leaders who were shot dead while protesting peacefully demanding separate Uttarakhand state.

Uttarakhand came into existence on 9 November, 2000 with the optimism that it will become a prosperous self reliant economic state where every farmer, student, youth, women and senior citizens will be fully empowered after having been relieved from the protracted shackles of Uttar Pradesh.

But after twenty five years of the state coming into separate existence we are at square one where were were before.

Uttarakhand witnessed ten chief ministers, and its fiscal deficit which was merely Rs. 2000 crores in the year 2004 have crossed Rs. 70000 crores with the network of liquor spread all over the state earning Rs. 4.5 thousand crores annually but spoiling the families with illegal liquor too allegedly being supplied by liquor smugglers into the interiors of Uttarakhand.

There have been massive exodus of population outside the state nearly more than thirty lakhs in the absence of the decentralised development with no good schools, negligible health facilities , no option for jobs and criminals settling Uttarakhand considering it as their safe haven.

Unfortunately pregnant women are dying on the way and so are the infants in the absence of the ambulance, adequate health centres and non availability of roads including non availability of doctors, paramedics and medicines.

The state has been gripped by land sharks, liquor mafias and corrupters with Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission under a question mark of massive paper leaks and Patwari question paper being sold at Rs. Fifteen lakhs allegedly with the guarantee of the candidates being qualified.

The situation of the state is in quandary and thousands of unemployed frustrated youths are on roads protesting incessantly to bring the entire paper leak racket to justice.

Unfortunately, a state with more than Rs. 70 thousand fiscal deficit and hundreds of landslides with several deadly catastrophic disasters, is distributing advertisements worth crores of rupees to electronics and print media in Uttarakhand as if it is falling down from trees.

According to a latest report the Uttarakhand government with several thousand crores of Rupees as deficit on its back has spend Rs. 1001 on the publicity of the self government, flamboyance and image building with the electronics channels receiving Rs. 426 crores singularly.

There are also reports that under the guise of obliging the media channels and print media the majority of the non deserving media have been obliged with ample money at the cost of public exchequer’s money.

Sounds shocking that a state which is suffering so badly already, socio economically including overburdened with fiscal deficit of more than seventy thousand crores and also the victim of massive ecological disasters, the state government is lavishly spending crores on advertisement firing the past five years. Shame.