DC Ramban reviews achievements registered under PWD, PMGSY sectors

DC Ramban chairing a meeting on Tuesday.
DC Ramban chairing a meeting on Tuesday.

Excelsior Correspondent

Ramban, Dec 12: Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, Baseer-Ul-Haq Chaudhary today chaired a meeting to review the financial and physical achievements registered under PWD and PMGSY sectors in the district.
Reviewing the progress of PWD (R&B), Division Ramban and Banihal, the Deputy Commissioner directed all the stakeholder departments to work in close coordination to resolve the local issues hindering the pace of progress on developmental projects of public interest.
Directing the concerned Executive Engineers to take help from concerned SDMs and other administrative officers to resolve bottlenecks which impact the execution of work, especially developmental projects of social sector as reflected in 14 indicators of Aspirational Block, the Deputy Commissioner asked them to conduct joint inspection of projects by District and Sectoral officers to take decision on-the-spot to resolve the issues, if any.
He also directed both the departments to submit a detailed report of big projects sanctioned and taken up under Centrally Sponsored and other schemes of their respective sectors.
Reviewing the status of various ongoing road projects, the Deputy Commissioner asked the DFOs to personally monitor the forest clearance issues pertaining to the various road and other social sector projects. He directed the executive agencies to ensure sustainable development of the district while planning and conducting surveys of developmental projects to preserve our forests and other natural resources and heritage of the district.
Reviewing the completion of developmental projects, the Deputy Commissioner directed all the executing agencies to achieve cent pecent both physical and financial targets against given targets.
Taking stock of progress on developmental works of UT Capex, District Capex, Area Development Fund of DDC, BDC and PRIs, and other schemes, the Deputy Commissioner directed the officers to focus on completion of works well in time to achieve fixed targets.
Earlier, giving a PowerPoint presentation, the Executive Engineer PWD (R&B),Ramban informed the meeting that as many as 65 roads of 149 kms are being executed in the Ramban Division, besides major building projects of crores of rupees going on in division.
Briefing about Phase-I, II and III of PMGSY Ramban, the Executive Engineer PMGSY informed that out of total 73 sanctioned projects including bridges, 48 projects have been completed, while work on the rest of the projects is going on in full swing.
The Executive Engineer PWD (R&B) Division Banihal also apprised the meeting about progress on road and other infrastructural projects being executed under PWD and PMGSY sectors.
Among others, ADDC, Rajinder Sharma, ADC, Harbans Lal Sharma, CPO, Shakeeb Ahmad Rather, DFO, Batote, Kuldeep Singh, DFO, Ramban Rajan Singh, DFO Social Forestry Mahesh Thakur, Executive Engineer, PWD Ramban, Abhishek Gupta, and Executive Engineer PWD, Banihal, Iqbal Ahmed, Executive Engineer, PMGSY Ramban, Arvind Langeh.