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| 63-RR organises "Awam Vikas Mela" | | | et plus report
Jammu, Mar 6: To provide better employment avenues, on the spot opening of accounts and medical assistance to the people in far flung areas, Army's 63-Rashtriya Rifles Battalion organised one day "Awam Vikas Mela" today for the people of Dakkikot, Kot Chalwal, Bambal and Audan panchayats at Kunalagala.
According to a Defence communiqué to achieve the objective of employment and empowerment of women and youth a well trained and skilled delegation from Jaipur Rugs headed by Sanjay Singh carried out lecture and screening of movie on employment avenues based on traditional embroidery, crochet and similar skill.
Lecture and demonstration on apiculture was demonstrated by Aftar and Partap Singh from Apiculture Development Center, Rajouri
Availability of banking is almost away between 6-8 kilometers fromsuch remote villages which has a blistering effect on the locals when they comes to taking up any
employment under Government schemes like MGNREGA and poor people falleasy prey to the middlemen and in the bargain they end up paying heavy commissions and receive meagre amount for their hand work "To mitigate such problems faced by people Army took due note of theproblem and approached J&K Bank and in collaboration with the Bank carried out an account opening drive in the area. Sunil Sharma, branch manager of J&K Bank, Kalakote took unprecedented initiative with personal involvement in making it successful," it said. Sarpanch of Kunalgala said the army is always on forefront in helping the poor people in thearea and "we are thankful to our army for making us aware about new technique of farming and would work on them so reap maximum benefits."
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