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| Azad goes to people for feedback on development works | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 30
Devising a novel and effective mechanism to directly receive feedback from the people at the grass root, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday spent hours till midnight in interacting with a scores of deputations in Udhampur district and had the pulse of developmental activities undertaken by his government.
For any other politician it would have been a nerve straining schedule. But for Ghulam Nabi Azad, known for working 18 hours a day, Thursday was just a routine matter.
Starting of at 8 in the morning by meeting various deputations of people who had come to his official residence on Wazarat Road here to acquaint him with their problems and seek redress, the Chief Minister attended his office at 9.30 A.M. where he did some files before taking meetings of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Human Rights and Wadhwa Committee on Refugees of PoK and West Pakistan. Then, along with senior officers including his Principal Secretary, Anil Goswami, he drove to Nagrota and Jagti in the outskirts of the winter capital to inspect the pace of work on Satellite Township being developed for Kashmiri migrants. After a thorough inspection during which he discussed even the minutest details of the massive project going apace, he proceeded to Udhampur where he met a couple of thousand people in groups who had come from the four corners of the district to acquaint the Chief Minister about their development needs.
The Tara Niwas presented a festive look as groups of people from all blocks of the district had descended on the lawns of once the royal mansion to be face to face with their leader. The marathon public darbar started at 1 P.M. and culminated only at midnight. Even as the officials present on the occasion felt tired and the camera person of an international news agency doing a profile of the Chief Minister looked exhausted, Azad did not show any sign of fatigue. He heard each of the 64 deputations with rapt attention, interacting with almost every individual, enquiring about issues and problems confronting their villages and asking about development schemes going on in their areas. Minister for Rural Development, Jugal Kishore and Advisor to Chief Minister, Janak Raj Gupta were also present.
The innovative method of feedback collection by Azad on development works and identifying deficiencies through interaction with people on the ground has earned him wide appreciation. The deputations had come from Duddu, Ramnagar, Panchari, Chenani, Ghordi, Majalta and Udhampur and villages as distant from each other as Laati in Duddu and Bhamag in Panchari and Khoon in Majalta and Tikri in Udhampur blocks. They represented a cross-section of society including farmers, lawyers, students, journalists, unemployed youth, women, aged and the young, and apprised the Chief Minister about the development scenario in the respective villages and sought his intervention in sanctioning more schemes for improving basic amenities.
The deputations, besides highlighting problems of their respective areas, also gave an appreciation of the infrastructure development schemes being undertaken by the government. The Chief Minister heard them with patience and composure, at times himself taking notes and at other passing on instructions to the district administration. While everybody felt that the government had taken up massive infrastructure development mission across the State and that each village was benefited, the deputations did not show any reluctance in asking for more. Azad seemed too willing to listen to them.
The deputations from Duddu and Basantgarh asked for blacktopping and upgradation of Basantgarh-Ramnagar road, a higher secondary school at Khaned, a degree college in the block, up-gradation of Duddu middle school, a Niabat, a separate block at Duddu and bus service between Laati and Basantgarh and Basantgarh and Ramnagar.
The Panchari deputation demanded up-gradation of local health centre and middle school and bringing the area on tourism map of the State. An all women deputation from Udhampur demanded 33% reservation quota for women in elected bodies, besides addressing unemployment problem. The ladies were unanimous in appreciating the Roshni scheme and development offensive initiated by the Azad-led government in the State.
The local journalists working for national and State newspapers and news channels also met the Chief Minister and demanded accommodation for press club at the district headquarter.
The Ramnagar deputation demanded early completion of ongoing construction of bridges and roads in the block. A member of the deputation young Radha Jamwal recited a self composed poem in Urdu highlighting the achievements of the present government.
The demand for construction of road from Asiyan to Suna Peer Baba came from the Chenani deputation who also demanded shifting back of Niabat to Ghordi, augmentation of water supply in the area from Samroli to Sudmahadev and introduction of subjects of history, Dogri, Sanskrit and economics in higher secondary school, Chenani.
The villagers from Ghordi informed the Chief Minister that the PHC in their village was without staff and demanded immediate posting of doctors as also setting up of a Niabat in Ghordi.
The deputation from Majalta wanted construction of an office complex for all block level offices and thanked the Chief Minister for taking care of their development requirements.
Other deputations that met the Chief Minister included ITI diploma holders, ReT teachers, Agriculture technocrats, unemployed engineers, office bearers of Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, District Bar Association, National Students Union of India, migrants from Gool, Private School Education Union, Lambardar and Chowkidar associations, Rehri Pharri Union and Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry and apprised him about their problems.
As the meeting with the last deputation was over, it was already approaching midnight and the Chief Minister returned to Jammu. |
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