Dy CM reviews Diwali arrangements
Asks admin to associate celebrations with cleanliness campaign
15/10/2017
KATHUA, Oct 14: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. Nirmal Singh today advised the officers to motivate people to associate the celebration of Diwali festival with cleanliness and sanitation campaign as this festival has special significance in people's lives. He said that students should be encouraged for this cause to make cleanliness and sanitation a regular part of their life. He also called for involving other stakeholders of the society in this drive until the desired target is achieved.
The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking at a meeting of officers of Kathua district convened to discuss the arrangement being made in connection with the celebrations of Diwali festival.
The Dy CM reviewed the arrangements made for security, maintenance of law and order, traffic regulation, installation of cracker stalls, drinking water and power supply, sanitation, medicare, checking of quality and price of eatables and deployment of fire tenders.
Dy CM laid special emphasis on quality and regulation of rates of eatables, adequate supply of Kerosene Oil and ration to far off places, regulation of traffic, adequate stock of life saving drugs at Hospitals and PHCs, sufficient strength of Doctors and Para Medic staff and deployment of ambulances during the festival days.
He directed SSP Kathua to constitute teams to keep check on anti social activities during the celebration. Taking serious note of damage to public assets during development activities, DyCM directed the District Administration to keep check on this kind of working model where people are made to suffer during the execution of development works. He called for greater synergy among various departments while executing works of public importance.
Earlier, ADC Kathua, Rishpal Singh apprised the Minister about preparedness being made by the District Adminis tration in case there was any attempt from across the border during the festival season. Later, the Dy CM also reviewed the progress of works taken up under R-APDRP, IPDS, PMDP and DDUGJY schemes.
He asked the executing agencies to fast pace the implementation of the schemes being undertaken for augmentation of transmission, distribution, and providing uninterrupted power supply to the people and electrification of the un-electrified villages and hamlets of the district.
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