Sadhotra exhorts people to take benefit of poverty alleviation schemes

Excelsior Correspondent

Minister for Planning Ajay Kumar Sadhotra addressing public meeting at Makwal on Sunday.

JAMMU, Feb 17: Minister for Planning, Labour & Employment, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra on Sunday assured people that the ongoing developmental projects across the State would be expedited and completed with complete satisfaction of the people concerned.
Addressing a public meeting at Makwal border village in Marh constituency this afternoon, the Minister said the priority of the Coalition Government is to ensure that benefits of developmental schemes and other welfare programmes reach the targeted segments of the populace as expeditiously as possible.
“Delayed completion of projects frustrate the very idea behind taking up these”, he said and referred to the strategy of the Government to give impetus to works already taken up for ensuring their early completion. He said the Government has all along focused on development and has, in fact, undertaken a massive development effort across the State with an avowed objective of ameliorating the lot of downtrodden and under privileged segments of the society.
“The Coalition Government headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will carry forward this mission single-mindedly”, he said and sought the cooperation of people in this regard. He described people as the ultimate judges of performance of any Government and said the achievements registered during the past over four years stand testimony to the keenness of the Chief Minister in taking development to the doorsteps of the people, especially living in border areas, far flung and remote areas.
The Minister pointed towards the initiatives taken over the years for enforcing accountability and ensuring transparency in the administration and referred to revolutionary measures like Right to Information Act and Public Services Guarantee Act, which have empowered people to seek redressal to their grievances.
During his visit, the Minister interacted with several delegations of people and listened to their problems. He assured that he will take up all these with the concerned for immediate redressal.
Mr Sadhotra called upon the people to benefit from various schemes which have been tailored keeping in view their requirements. He referred to various state sectors and centrally sponsored schemes and asked the implementing departments to generate adequate awareness about these so that maximum people can benefit.