The District Development Committee Budgam has passed a resolution in which the members have sought action against the DDC Chairperson over the alleged illegal appointment of the Biodiversity Management Committee.
As per the resolution accessed by The Kashmiriyat which was passed by 13 members, the District Development Committee (DDC) Budgam has come to know through a surprising Facebook post of DDC Chairperson Budgam, Mr. Nazir Ahmed Khan that a biodiversity committee of the district Budgam is already in place and Raja Muzaffar Bhat appointed as its chairman.
The post is on the Facebook handle of the DDC Chairperson Budgam, posted around 11 am on 23 July 2022, the resolution read.
“The news came as a shocker as the decision is solely taken by DDC Chairperson Budgam Nazir Ahmed Khan for his vested interests without involving any DDC member of Budgam in the process of formation of Biodiversity Management Committee,” the members stated.
Pertinently, none of the DDC members of the Budgam have ever been informed of the process or sought opinion thereof and, none of the meetings have thus far been held to elect/nominate six persons (members) for the Biodiversity Management committee Budgam by involving the local body of DDC members of Budgam, the resolution read.
The Biodiversity Act 2002 specifies under Section 22 of sub-section 2&3 of the “Constitution of the Biodiversity Management Committee.”
The Biodiversity Management Committee as constituted under sub-rule (1) shall consist of Chairperson and not more than six persons nominated by the local body, of whom not less than one-third should be women and not less than 18% should belong to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes.
The Chairperson of the Biodiversity Management Committee shall be elected from amongst the members of the committee in the meeting to be chaired by the chairperson of the local body.
The move thus is shady, undemocratic, unethical and fraudulent and calls for disciplinary action against the DDC Chairperson Budgam Nazir Ahmed Khan and the members and chairperson of the illegally formed Biodiversity Management Committee of Budgam, the DDC stated.
The members also demanded the removal of the Chairman DDC.