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Srinagar, July 27– Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has called for earnest and coordinated efforts for uplift of underprivileged classes in the State, saying NGOs, besides government institutions, could play vital role in boosting up economic condition of disadvantaged people.
Azad said this while presiding a high-level meeting of Central and State Social Welfare Boards’ officials here Thursday attended, among others by Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Advisory Board, Mrs. Rajni Patil, MLA and Chairman J&K Social Welfare Advisory Board, G. M. Saroori, Financial Commissioner Planning & Development, S. S. Kapoor, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Anil Goswami, Commissioner/Secretary, Finance, B. B. Vyas and Secretary, Social Welfare N. K. Verma.
The Chief Minister stressed on the need for strict monitoring of the State and Central social welfare schemes across the state particularly in remote areas. He said the newly appointed Additional District Development Commissioners in all districts, including the recently created ones, would be given the task to closely monitor the functioning of the centres. He said that Numberdars and Chowkidars, whose remuneration was recently enhanced from Rs. 90 to Rs. 500 per month, could also be involved with supervision of these centres.
Earlier, Rajni Patil summed up welfare schemes launched by the union government including for children of ailing mothers, awareness generation programmes, education for adult women and construction of short stay homes and vocational training centres. She appreciated Chief Minister’s efforts for the uplift of the weaker sections of the society.
The Chief Minister and Mrs. Rajni Patil were informed that the J&K Social Welfare Advisory Board had sanctioned 1477 welfare schemes at a cost of Rs. 6 crore this year, compared to the preceding year’s 591. These include crèche, condensed course of education, vocational training, awareness generation programmes, family counseling centres, short stay homes like Apna Ghar and Neha Ghar, and construction of hostels for working women.
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