Jammu, March 5 : In a novel initiative, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday held an online feedback session with his constituency Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) representatives.
The feedback included inputs regarding the progress of development work in the particular region, implementation of Party programmes and the public mood in general.
According to a statement issued by the minister, the session, lasting three hours, was held in three separate groups consisting of PRI representatives from relatively peripheral areas of the two districts of Kathua and Udhampur respectively.
“Each group was comprised of an assorted combination of mostly Sarpanches and Panches with a few DDC members and BJYM office bearers of the Pahari Zila”.
Underlining the significance of this initiative, Dr Jitendra Singh noted that recently under the Lok Sabha Pravas Yojana, a practice had been started whererein if he was physically visiting one district of Uttar Pradesh, there would be an online feedback meeting with the other district which was not being physically visited at that time.
He said, learning from this experience, he had decided that while his regular weekly visits to one of the six districts of the constituency, by turn, will continue as has been the routine followed by him in last nine years, he would simultaneously be holding online sessions with the representatives and workers of the particular district not visited physically during that week.
The minister appreciated his Parliamentary office teams at Jammu and New Delhi for having put the system in place for this purpose.
During the meeting, Panches and Sarpanches unanimously held the view that in the last nine years, not a single week had passed when as an MP, Dr Jitendra Singh had not visited one or other district of his constituency and even during the COVID pandemic, he maintained regular contact, through telephone or video conference, to know about the well-being of Party workers.
DC Kathua Rahul Pandey and DC Udhampur Krittika Jyotsna were also brought online simultaneously for instant response to some of the issues raised by those attending the meeting.
Dr Jitendra Singh appreciated the two Deputy Commissioners for their positive and cooperative attitude in handling the issues raised by the PRI representatives.
