RAJOURI, MARCH 10: District Administration Rajouri Wednesday organized a Block Diwas proceedings at Koteranka, which was presided over by the District Development Commissioner, Rajesh K Shavan.
Among the others, SSP, Chandan Kohli; ADC Koteranka, Surinder Mohan Sharma; CPO, Mohammad Khurshid; SE Jal Shakti, SR Shukla; SE PWD, Shahid Latief; GM DIC, Manzoor Hussain; PO ICDS, Kartar Singh; CEO, Gulzar Hussain; ACD, Sushil Khajuria; Executive Engineers of Jal Shakti, PWD, PMGSY, PDD besides other district and sectoral officers were present on the occasion.
BDC Chairperson Budhal Old-A, Javed Iqbal Chowdhury; Sarpanchs, Panchs, and people in large numbers from all walks of life participated in the event.
The people from Kha, Jamola, Sawari, Kanthol, Sadda, Tali, Mashloor, Kotegalian, Sekhogan, Nairkassi, Khuidhera, and other adjoining areas participated in the Block Diwas and projected several issues and demands. They sought sanctioning of a KV School and a JK Bank branch at Jamola, special recruitment drive for Gujjar and Bakerwal community in police and other paramilitary forces, sanctioning of a fire station at Kha Jamola, PHC at Mashloor, up-gradation of Middle school at Kha, and primary school at Mohra Mashloor, borewell at Khuidhera.
They also sought adequate staff at PHC at Najeri, Nairkassi, and HS Najeri, sanctioning of Animal and Sheep husbandry centre at Nairkassi, construction of road from Jamola Dhera to HS Najeri and road from HS Najeri to Buimorh, sanctioning of an HSS, post office and PHC at Kha, public toilet facility at Bus stand- Koteranka. They also complained about inflated electricity bills, shortage of water pipes, etc.
The public also demanded construction of a Community Hall and erection of a BSNL tower at Kha, construction of a sanitary complex at Jamola-A, the establishment of a police station at Koteranka, lack of road connectivity to Jamola Upper-B, construction of road from Kandi to Jamola Upper-A, sanctioning of Anganwadi centres in all the wards of the block, etc.
The DDC gave a patient hearing and said that the purpose of holding such public interaction camps is to take stock of the public grievances and redress the same at their doorsteps. He informed that District Administration has developed an app R-SIS(Rajouri School Information System) for monitoring the functioning of the schools and the same would be launched shortly. He asked the people to avail the benefits of Government schemes meant for economic development and urged upon the PRIs to aware public about the same in gramsabhas He also advised the public to get themselves registered under the SEHAT scheme to avail best Medicare facilities.
He said the District Administration Rajouri has launched the Lokmitra initiative and the selected Government employees are working as eyes and ears of the Government. “Besides a helpline number ‘01962264544’ has also been opened where the people can call and get their grievances registered,” he said.
The DDC informed that the district administration has set a target of constructing 1000 small canals (Kulhs) in one month to augment the irrigation facility.
Informing that the District Rajouri has been identified as a dairy district, he asked the public to co-operate with the district administration in promoting the milk and milk products to make Rajouri an export hub in the identified products.
Regarding the issue of the exaggerated electricity bills, the DDC directed ADC Koteranka to initiate an inquiry in this regard with the help of the Lokmitra concerned and submit the report within the shortest possible time.
About the issue of road connectivity, the DDC sought a detailed report from the PMGSY about the action being taken in this regard. It was informed that the proposal for the up-gradation of several roads under the PMGSY-III phase has been sent to the concerned authorities for necessary action at their end, The PMGSY officials said a detailed survey has been conducted for identifying the requirement of roads under PMGSY-IV phase in the rural areas of the block. The DDC also directed the Executive Engineer PWD to speed up the work on the roads being executed in the block to provide necessary benefits to the general public.