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| During his Jammu visit, CM turns Marathon meeting man | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 8: With the seat of power away in Srinagar for six months, the occasional visitor to the winter capital, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had a tough time meeting hundreds of people drawn from several areas of Jammu but the officials say that he heard each one with patience and attention.
Known for the longer hours of his daily work schedule, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday met a stream of deputations of people from different parts of Jammu division and listened to their problems for eight hours non stop.
The deputations had come from places like Rajouri, Samba, Budhal, Arnia, Bishnah, R.S Pura, Doda, Bhalessa, Bhadarwah, Chatha, Simbal Camp and Jammu city.
Earlier in the day, Azad had addressed a convention, second in a week, of Lambardars and Chowkidars where he tasked the twin village institutions with responsibilities of monitoring development works and creating awareness against social evils in their respective areas. In the afternoon, he went to the civil secretariat where he met 73 deputations. The interaction lasted till past midnight.
The Chief Minister gave a patient ear to each group as they brought their problems to his notice. Most of the issues highlighted by people during the interaction related to road connectivity and civic amenities.
While assuring to look into the problems raised by individual deputations, the Chief Minister spoke about the government's development strategy and said that all villages in Jammu and Kashmir would be connected through roads with cities and towns in the next three years. He said a massive road construction programme had been launched in the state.
The Chief Minister said that wider road connectivity would open up villages for all round development. He said besides road connectivity, his government was implementing a plan to provide safe drinking water, power and educational and healthcare facilities to rural and hitherto undeveloped areas. A massive infrastructure expansion programme had been taken up by the government to address development needs across the state. He said people of all regions and areas of the State were stakeholders in the development process initiated by his government with liberal funding from the centre.
To a group of educated youth who wanted government jobs, the Chief Minister said that there being limited scope for absorption in government departments, they should look for self employment option. He said the government was encouraging the youth to seek gainful employment in horticulture and floriculture sectors having tremendous potential to generate economic activity.
Apart from the deputations coming from far off places of Jammu province, the ones from the winter capital city that met the Chief Minister include Raghunath Bazar Businessmen Association, Unemployed Engineers, ITI Technicians, Contractual Engineers, All J&K Post-Graduate Environmentalist Association and the Youth Congress.
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