"By holding cabinet meetings in far flung areas, the government is simply burdening the state exchequer and doing nothing else," AICC member and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil said in a statement here.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had yesterday chaired a cabinet meeting in Macchil area, near the Line of Control, in Kupwara district as part of the government policy to take governance to door steps of people living in inaccessible areas.
Vakil said the men, machinery and money spent in holding such meets in far flung areas cost a lot of money and it should be discouraged.
He said the the government should adopt austerity measures so that funds meant for the development reached the deserving.
He said many cabinet ministers, who had been camping in their respective constituencies, had to take flights to reach Srinagar and then spend money on their cavalcades to reach the meeting venue.
