Early Times Report
RAJOURI, Mar 25: Continuing the massive public outreach initiative of the District Administration, District Development Commissioner Rajouri, Rajesh K Shavan on Thursday listened to the public issues here at a Public Grievances Redressal camp held at Kalakote. Additional Deputy Commissioner Kalakote, Krishan Lal; Additional SP, Girdari Lal; Chief Planning Officer, Mohammad Khurshid; SE PWD, Shahid Latief; SE Jal Shakti, SR Shukla; PO ICDS, Kartar Singh; CEO Education, Gulzar Hussain; ACD, Sushil Khajuria; Executive Engineers of the PWD, Jal Shakti, I&FC, PMGSY, JKPCC besides other districts and sectoral officers were also present on the occasion. BDC Chairperson Kalakote, Babu Khan; BDC Chairperson Moughla, Sulekha Kotewal; DDC Member Kalakote, Anita Thakur; DDC Member Moughla, Shamim Akhtar; DDC Member Dhangri, Rameshwar Singh; President MC Kalakote, Vijay Suri, Sarpanches, Panches and people drawn from various sections of society including social activists, prominent citizens, retired Government Employees, and common masses from Kalakote and adjoining areas thronged the Public outreach camp and put forward several issues. They apprised the DDC about developmental issues of their respective areas and sought augmentation of water supply, macadamization and renovation of roads, up-gradation of schools, better health services and other related issues. Many of the issues were resolved on the spot with the intervention of the concerned departments. Specific issues projected on the occasion included widening of Siot to Kalakote road, blacktopping of road from Sair to Dali-A, Sialsui to Phali road, repairing the old hand pumps, paucity of staff in health and educational institutions, repair and renovation of roads, construction of a bridge at Pathinala, up-gradation of GHHS School Kalakote, shortage of electricity poles, replacement of the worn-out water pipes etc. The DDC gave a patient hearing and assured that their genuine grievances would be redressed in a time-bound manner. Regarding the augmentation of power supply in the district, the DDC said that necessary instructions have been passed on to the concerned authorities from the PDD for the completion of work on all the receiving stations and transformers by the end of June this year. |