Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, July 20: Minister for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Abdul Ghani Kohli today called upon the District Administration to closely monitor the performance of all district and sectoral officers so that time bound delivery of services and completion of projects of public importance could be ensured.
He was speaking in two consecutive meetings of general public and district and sectoral officers at Kalakote and Chingus. The public raised a range of issues pertaining to various departments. Minister gave patient hearing to the public and passed on spot directions for early redressal of their grievances.
The locals demanded early completion of widening and macadamization of Rajouri-Kalakote road, widening of Kalakote-Siote road, construction of Narian to Digyana road, augmentation of power and water supply system, introduction of science stream in Govt. Degree College Kalakote, providing standard medicines in the areas besides effective implementation of MG-NREGA, Social Security Schemes and other Self Employment Schemes.
Responding to various queries regarding liabilities under MGNREGA, ACD Rajouri informed the locals that the liability would be cleared soon as Rs. 4.10 crores have already been released for the Kalakote block.
Kohli said the funds under MGNREGA should be utilized in a planned manner to create tangible assets of public utility, adding that the culverts and small bridges in far off areas should be taken up for construction on priority under the scheme to enhance the connectivity in rural areas besides providing easy passage for pedestrians.
On the occasion, the Minister called upon the district administration to closely monitor the performance of all district and sectoral officers to ensure time bound delivery of services and completion of projects of public importance.
Kohli directed the district heads of various departments to conduct regular meetings and on spot inspections to ensure timely completion of projects. He further asked them to keep public informed about various ongoing projects and involve them in decision making on grass root level.
Taking a serious note of non-availability of teaching staff in some schools, he asked the Chief Education Officer to rationalize the posting of teaching staff in all the schools in the district so as to ensure that no student suffer due to lack of teaching staff.
Earlier, Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, District Development Commissioner Rajouri informed the meeting that District Administration has set up 120 revenue and medical camps during past one month throughout the district and 15000 certificates of different nature were issued at the door step of public.
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