Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU May 31: To reach out to the people at far off and remote places, the Grievances Cell of the National Conference, Provincial Wing, Jammu will be holding public hearings at the district headquarters across the Jammu region starting from middle of June. The objective is to play the role of a bridge between Government and the people for seeking redressal of various individual and area specific problems.
The Grievances Cell, set up three months ago, at the Provincial Headquarters at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan, has been listening to the problems of the people on week days between 10 AM and 5 PM. So far its inception nearly 4,300 persons and various associations/organisations have registered their grievances at the Cell, which have been processed for appropriate response from the concerned quarters. On an average 50 people have been meeting National Conference leaders, Anil Dhar and Iqbal Wani, who are heading the Cell.
The intensified mass-contact drive is part of the Chief Minister and Working President, National Conference, Omar Abdullah’s declaration that 2013 will be the year of reaching out to the masses across the State.
The mechanism of the Grievances Cell had been put in place after the successful interactive sessions between the people and the Ministers belonging to National Conference at the party headquarters in Jammu during February this year. The Ministers met a large number of people from various parts of the state besides various organizations of trade, commerce, transport, tourism, education and other disciplines, heard their problems and took on the spot decisions to redress these.
Encouraged by the success of these interactions, the Provincial President Devender Singh Rana had constituted a two-member cell to listen to the problems of the people. The problems thereof, brought to the notice of the Grievance Cell are taken up with the concerned for action.
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