Excelsior Correspondent
GANDERBAL, Mar 16: Commissioner Secretary, Rural Development Department (RDD) and Panchayati Raj, Mandeep Kaur today visited district Ganderbal and convened a high level joint meeting of officers and PRIs to review the progress of works taken up under the UT/District Capex Budget (DDC, BDC & PRI Grants) besides status of various flagship schemes including MGNREGA, PMAY-G, UMEED and 14th FCA was reviewed in detail.
Chairperson DDC Ganderbal, Nuzhat Ishfaq; Vice Chairperson DDC, Bilal Ahmad; Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Krittika Jyotsna; Director RDD Kashmir, Director Finance, RDD&PR, Director Social Audit, ADDC Ganderbal, ACD Ganderbal, CPO, besides, DDC Members, BDC Chairpersons, District and Sectoral Officers attended the meeting.
The Commissioner Secretary took a comprehensive review of the progress on various schemes initiated in the Districts under rural development sector including Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), MGNREGA, payments of wages, 14th FC, Human Resource, SBM-G,NRLM, Panchayat Ghar status, RGSA and other schemes.
Regarding Panchayat Ghar status in the district, the Commissioner Secretary was informed that 92 Panchayat Ghars are available out of 126 Panchayats of the district for which she directed the DC that land shall be identified in other panchayats at an earliest so that Panchayat Ghar are also constructed in these panchayat in a time bound manner.
She also asked the DC to take review regarding the facilities in these panchayat Ghars including furniture, water, electricity, Internet and other required facilities and submit the report adding all panchayats will be connected to Internet facility as most of the programs like LG Mulakat/meetings are conducted virtually and to facilitate the PRIs to participate in such programs in their offices.
The Commissioner Secretary complemented the district administrations for achieving the targets in various schemes and emphasized that endeavor must be to achieve targets in full and urged all the officers of RDD to work with added zeal and dedication so that all taken up works are physically and financially completed in current fiscal with no spillovers into next Financial Year.
Meanwhile, the DDC Chairperson, DDC Members and BDCs apprised the Commissioner Secretary about several issues including dearth of staff in RDD, material supply issue and other issues hampering the progress of works.
Replying the issues raised, the Commissioner Secretary reiterated that Government is committed to empower the elected representatives and in this regardcapacity building programmes/trainingsand exposure tours to outside UT would be conducted so that they could acquaint themselves with the functioning of schemes at the grassroot level.
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