Officers dedicate public utilities, launch cleanliness, plantation drives

24/06/2019

JAMMU, Jun 22: Continuing with the agenda of decentralizing power at the grass roots level, the 'Back to Village' initiative today entered day 4 with all the Panchayat halqas of Jammu hummed with multi activities like women gram sabhas, public meetings, inspections, constitution of social audit committees, plantation drives, distribution of soil health cards, awareness about centrally and state-sponsored schemes, Grehpraveshs of PMAY beneficiaries.
The programme envisages taking the administration at the doorsteps of rural people and involving them in decision making.
At UDHAMPUR, day four of 'Back to Village' initiative saw activities being undertaken in 9 panchayats of the district, with visiting officers conducting public meets, inspections to access the status of amenities available for the people at grassroots' level, besides identifying areas for growth for the panchayat.
Public interactions in panchayats saw people raising issues of dilapidated conditions of link roads, poor water supply, increase in industrial pollution affecting the production of crops, pending payments of MGNREGA, left out beneficiaries in Ayushman Bharat scheme, lack of street lights, irregular power supply among others.
A demand for establishment of cottage industry in the area for women was also projected besides sanctioning of new water supply schemes and clearing of pending land compensation cases was demanded.
During the day several activities were also conducted in various panchayats across the district including women gram sabhas, the constitution of social audit committees, plantation drives, distribution of soil health cards, interactions about centrally and state sponsored schemes, Grehpraveshs of PMAY beneficiaries etc.
During the day, pledges were administered to PRI members and other villagers, who were asked to promise to work actively towards the development of their panchayats and make them drug-free.
The PM's letter addressed to Gram Sabhas was also read out to the PRI members and villagers.
In many panchayats special theme based cultural programmes were also organized.
Pertinently, Day 4 marked the completion of Phase one of the 'Back to Village' programme in the district.
At JAMMU, as part of the Back to Village programme, District Devel-opment Commissioner, Ramesh Kumar, visited Kot Balwal village and assessed the implementation of the initiative.
He inspected the stalls installed by various government departments, Agriculture, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Revenue, J&K Bank, Health etc, to educate the rural masses about the development schemes.
The culture wing of the Department of Information and Public Relations organized a colourful cultural program depicting the development process initiated by the government in various fields.
DDC asked the rural masses to come up with their grievances, during the ongoing programme, with regard to the development process in their area so that the efforts could be made to redress their issues.
On the occasion, the Health Department distributed baby health kits among the beneficiaries.
ACD Jammu, Aijaz Qaiser, Sarpanch and Panches were also present on the occasion.
Earlier, ACD also visited block Mandal Phalain and launched the rally regarding from Panchayat Surya Chak 'Save the Tawi'.

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