Jammu Tawi, Oct 17: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and
Empowerment, Pratima Bhoumik today visited Mashwara Drug De-
addiction Centre at Purkhoo here.
During the visit, the Minister interacted with inmates and
encouraged them to commit to life and plan for a brighter future for
themselves and their families. She said that with the right intervention,
love and care, all the victims of drug abuse could come back to normal
life and become active members of society.
At the centre, the Minister also conversed with senior police
officers and instructed them to eradicate the drug menace in the society.
She also interacted with centre administrators and advised them to get
the inmates involved in skill training and help them to take benefits of
self employment schemes of the Government. During the visit, the
minister also inspected the facilities established within the centre.
Those present at the occasion included Director of the centre,
Pallavi Singh; Sarpanch, Rajni Devi; Sarpanch Naresh Singh; Naib
Sarpanch, Satpal Sharma and other PRI members.
As a part of the special public outreach program of the Central Govt. to
the UT of J&K, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and
Empowerment, Smt. Pratima Bhoumik also visited Rajouri.
The Minister said that the basic objective of public outreach
program is to assess ground-level development across all the sectors
and to review the implementation of all the central Govt. schemes and
programmes in the district.
She also said that the Government is working on the idea of ‘Sab
Ka Sath, Sab Ka Vikas' and thus, all round, holistic and sustainable
development across every sector of J&K is the top priority of the Central
Government.
The Minister further said that after the abrogation of Articles 370
and 35 A in Jammu and Kashmir, all welfare schemes and programs
have been implemented in J&K and many have reached 100 percent of
their saturation which is a positive sign.
Underlining scores of measures being taken to meet the
developmental aspirations of the border residents, the Minister said that
the Govt. is very serious about the safety and protection of all the border
residents and has thus taken several initiatives for their welfare. The
contribution of border residents is immense as they work shoulder to
shoulder with our security forces for the maintaining peace in the border
areas”, she added.
