Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, May 30: Member Legislative Assembly from Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in Tagood area of tehsil Mugalmaidan. The scheme provides free LPG connections to the women from BPL households.
The MLA while addressing the gathering said that use of LPG in households will help protect the health of the women and reduce the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel, reduce the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel and prevent young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.
Saroori also listed various social elevation schemes launched in the area and urged the people to avail the benefits of these schemes. He stressed upon people to help disseminate information about these welfare programmes among others so that no household remains devoid of the benefits from these welfare schemes.
He also listened the public grievances in the area. The people highlighted their issues and demanded pending payments of MGNREGA works, blacktopping on the Tagood road, drinking water and better staff position in the schools.
Saroori assured the people that the pending wages will be cleared within 15 days as the Rural Development Department (RDD) has received the funds from the higher authorities. He also announced that walling, mettling, shingling, blacktopping work shall be started within a month time.
On the occasion retired Major, Janki Nath, BJP youth leader Sher Singh from Tagood joined Congress party.
Later, a deputation of VLWs and MPWs of district Kishtwar under the leadership of its district president Zahid Rasheed Mughal calls on Saroori and submitted a memorandum to him and demanded his party’s intervention in addressing the genuine demands of the agitating employees who are on strike for the last five days.
Reacting to the demands raised by the VLWs and MPWs, Saroori took up the matter with Director Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Jammu and brief him about the problems faced by the people due to strike of the VLWs and MPWs. He termed the demand of agitating employees as genuine and asked the director RDD to take up speedy measures for promotion of these employees whose DPCs hasn’t been cleared since last 8 years.
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