Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: The remote rural area of Gandoh in the hill district of Doda in Jammu & Kashmir is all set to have its first-ever Post Office which will start functioning shortly. This comes close on the heels of the recent approval for setting up a Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) in another remote block of Jodhpur in district Doda.
Announcing this here today while speaking to media on the sidelines of an official function, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh disclosed that Gandoh is a remotely located place about 30-35 kms from the township of Thathri and is very poorly connected as far as communication and internet is concerned. With a Post Office becoming functional in this peripheral location, he said, the entire population around the area, particularly the youth and students, will have the ease of applying for higher education institutions as well as for jobs.
Expressing gratitude towards Union Minister for Communications Manoj Sinha, Dr Jitendra Singh said, he is pleased to note that he had made a representation for a Post Office at Gandoh on the 14th of February this year and within a short span of 6 months, it has been conceded by the concerned Ministry.
Elaborating further, Dr Jitendra Singh said, there have been two major demands from the area, namely that of a Kendriya Vidyalaya and a Post Office and added that the local MLA Dilip Singh Parihar had also been keenly following both these demands for quite some time. Kendriya Vidyalaya for Gandoh, however, he said, has got little delayed because only last month he got approval for a Kendriya Vidyalaya for another remote block of Jodhpur in the same district of Doda and therefore, sanction of two KVs simultaneously for the same district was little unusual. But, he said, in near future, he hopes to get the approval of a Kendriya Vidyalaya for Gandoh as well.
In present times of global networking and a shrunken world, where everyone is connected to each other through the simple click of a mouse, Dr Jitendra Singh said, it is an irony that there are certain areas which are deprived of even the basic means of postal and communication facility which should have been made available several years ago. The setting up of a Post Office in Gandoh and a Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jodhpur, he said, is, in a way, redemption of the neglect that these areas in district Doda have suffered in the past, he said.
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