Ganderbal, June 26: Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Er Ghulam Ali Khatana on Monday visited Ganderbal district and convened a meeting of officers to review the developmental projects and implementation of centrally sponsored schemes in the district.
The review meeting was held in the Conference Hall of Mini-Secretariat Ganderbal and was attended by Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Shyambir along with Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Ganderbal, Mehraj-ud-Din Shah and Chief Planning Officer, Irfan Giri.
At the outset, the DC briefed the MP about the developmental plans of the district and the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes through the powerpoint presentation.
While taking department-wise review, Khatana directed all the officers to ensure grievances and issues of the people are redressed in a time-bound manner. He also urged them to work as a team so that all social security schemes and other financial assistance schemes are saturated and deserving people are benefited. He exhorted for wide publicity of such schemes among the masses especially those living in far-flung areas of the district.
The MP appreciated the district administration for their commendable job in the implementation of various individual beneficiary schemes and the progress achieved on various developmental works. He stressed the officers to prepare future strategies in such a way that the district becomes self-sufficient, and perceptible change is visible on the ground.
During the course of deliberations, Khatana was apprised about the initiatives started to achieve 100% enrolment of out-of-school children and special drives launched to cover never enrolled, and out-of-school children in the district. It was stressed upon all the officers to improve the service delivery mechanism in order to provide quality services to the common people.
While reviewing the water supply status in the district, Executive Engineer Jal Shakti, Circle Ganderbal briefed the chair about the status of Water Supply Schemes in the district. The MP instructed him to utilize the available resources judiciously so that drinking water facilities are augmented in the district.
Regarding the saturation of schemes run by the Social Welfare Department, the MP was informed that the department has achieved 100% saturation of all the schemes and the same has been verified through various Block Diwas programmes across the district.
