Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 26: Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj and Law & Justice Abdul Haq today exhorted upon the officers to make concerted efforts to maximise outreach of the rural development schemes for ensuring development at the grassroot level .
The Minister said this after inaugurating check dams at Sandrote and Saili in Dansal constructed under Integrated Watershed Management Programme for harnessing water so that the people living in the vicinity can use it for irrigation and other purposes.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that people participation holds key to the implementation of programmes like IWMP aimed at restoring the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative cover and water to provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed area.
He said that State Government has started various development programmes for the overall growth of the State and special focus has been laid on the providing better amenities in the rural pockets .
Later, the Minister reviewed the progress of various programmes under J&K State Rural Livelihood Mission including UMEED, Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA), Non-Pesticide Manag-ement (NPM) and J&K Milk Producers Cooperative Limited in Bishnah.
The Minister was apprised that 855 Self Help Groups formed in Bishnah under UMEED benefitted 9,075 women. It was also informed that under CMSA, four gram panchayats have been covered in Bishnah benefitting 376 farmers of the area.
Reiterating the vision of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for empowering women, the Minister said that women should come forward and take optimum benefit of UMEED so that they can create their own source of revenue generation.
Additional Mission Director, JKSRLM Kapil Sharma, Advisor Farm Livelihoods, NRLM DV Raidu and other officers of the department were present on the occasion.
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