Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, July 29: Pradesh Congress Committee vice president and MLA Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori conducted tour of Chatroo and Mugalmaidan areas and inspected the pace of work on several developmental projects.
During the visit, MLA Inderwal inspected the progress on the beautification project of Chatroo-Sinthan. He was informed that an amount of Rs 5 crores was spent in the first phase while the second phase involved a cost of Rs 2.5 crores.
“The tourism industry is the backbone of the State and he as a MLA has taken all the steps to ensure that tourism gets a boost in the Inderwal constituency,” he said and asked the concerned officers to speed up the completion of projects.
En route, Saroori met several deputations from Mugalmaidan and Chatroo tehsils who apprised him of their day-to-day problems and sought their redressal. A deputation of Tourism department employees also met Saroori and demanded regularization, streamlining of their salaries, the landholders who have given their land for the construction of tourism projects have also soughed disbursement of Rs 70 lakhs compensation at an earliest. The MLA assured them that appropriate steps will be taken to resolve their genuine issues.
Earlier, Saroori exhorted upon the senior functionaries to intensify monitoring for effective implementation of schemes. Speed up the pace of development projects and monitor the works closely, he directed the officers while chairing a high level meeting convened to review the status of development works and welfare schemes here at a meeting of the Officers of sub-division Chatroo of district Kishtwar.
Saroori sought detailed progress on the project of PHE department from PHE officers and directed them to start the work immediately so that the needs of people are met effectively. He also asked the officials to fully utilize the existing schemes so that people may get respite from scarcity of water besides this directed the PHE officials to follow up in Chief Engineer PHE office regarding sanctioning of new water supply schemes.
The meeting was attended by SDM Chatroo, DySP Chatroo, Tehsildar Mugalmaidan, BDO Chatroo, BDO Mugalmaidan, XEns R&B & PMGSY, CDPO, BMO, ZEO and others.
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