Excelsior Correspondent
PULWAMA, May 16: Minister for Public Works and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Rehman Veeri today asked the officers to ensure focused development by prioritizing issues of public interest so that tangible results are realized on ground level.
The Minister, who is also Chairman District Development Board Pulwama, was addressing the DDB meeting here.
Minister for Finance, Dr Haseeb A Drabu, Minister of State for Forests, Mir Zahoor Ahmed, Member Parliament, Nazir Ahmed Laway, Legislators, Mohammad Khalil Band and Mushtaq Ahmed Shah also attended the meeting. Besides, Heads of Departments, Chief Engineers, sectoral and district officers were also present.
Mr. Veeri asked district administration to be vibrant and proactive in resolving the people’s problem. He also asked the officers to conceive development projects in such a way that the same are completed within the set time-frame to avoid cost overrun.
The Minister said Pulwama district will get priority in R&B sector and directed for formulation of action plan for some vital roads that need immediate upgradation.
The Minister said that Agriculture and its allied sectors are vital for growth of rural economy which shall get special attention. He also asked Director Education to put some revolutionary step in Education Department as it is the basic sector for overall development of any society.
The Board approved current year’s Plan outlay of Rs 119.86 crore for the district.
The Board also reviewed Action Taken Report (ATR) of last year’s Board decisions and Chief Minister’s commitments. It was informed that out of 29 decisions 11 have been implemented, while as implementation of rest of the decisions is in progress.
Earlier, District Development Commissioner, Pulwama gave a detailed resume of the achievements registered during last year and informed that out of available outlay of Rs 65.86 crore, Rs 60.51 crore, were utilized for the execution of various developmental works and welfare schemes.
Dr Haseeb A Drabu who is representing Rajpora constituency urged officers to ensure proper projection of developmental projects so that need oriented infrastructure would come up at ground level.
Mir Zahoor Ahmed representing Pampore, MP and MLAs also projected various developmental issues of their concerned constituencies.
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