Poonch, November 01: Commissioner Secretary, Rural Development
Department (RDD) and Panchayati Raj, Mandeep Kaur, today visited
Poonch and convened a joint meeting of officers and PRIs to review
progress on development works being taken up under UT and District
CAPEX budget besides assessing progress on deliverables.
Commissioner Secretary is on a three day visit to the district as
Visiting Officer under ‘Back to Village' phase IV programme (B2V4) for
Panchayat Seri Khawaja, Lasanna block. She is also the Mentor
Secretary for Poonch district.
Deputy Commissioner, Poonch, Inder Jeet, Director RDD, Jammu,
Mohammad Mumtaz Ali, SSP Poonch, Rohit Baskotra and other senior
officers were present on the occasion.
Deputy Commissioner presented the district and Panchayat wise
status of works taken up under various schemes of RDD and highlighted
various achievements and activities being carried out in the district.
Speaking on the occasion, Commissioner Secretary said that
B2V4 is a flagship programme of UT government for strengthening
grassroots democracy. She urged upon the PRIs to take full initiative in
leading the developmental scenario in the border district of Poonch. She
said that GPDP is part of the programme and every member of Gram
Sabha should participate in the same.
While highlighting the objectives of B2V4 campaign, Commissioner
Secretary revealed that purpose of the current phase of B2V is to
prioritize the list of works with detailed planning of works for further
approval at the level of administrative department. She added that PRIs
and Visiting Officers shall give rating to government programmes during
the current phase of the programme.
She specifically took a detailed review of SBM in the district and
instructed the field officers including ACD to swiftly implement the
scheme objectives within a period of one month. Further, she took stock
of MGNREGA, PMAY, JJM, and other development schemes. She
further instructed that lack of communication should not a be a barrier at
the implementation level and instructed field officers to be thorough with
scheme guidelines.
Speaking to PRIs, Commissioner Secretary asked them to take full
advantage of government training programmes and adopt best
practices, successful models from other states like Kerala. She also
listened to their grievances and assured of timely redressal of all their
genuine issues.
