news details |
|
|
| Taj asks tribal communities to avail benefits of various schemes | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 04- Minister for PHE, Irrigation, and Flood Control Taj Mohi-ud-din Saturday asked the downtrodden communities to avail the benefits of welfare schemes meant for their socio-economic upliftment.
The Minister was addressing a Gujjar and Bakarwal Conference at village Swankha Kalla, Vijaypur in Samba district today.
The Conference was organized to provide the participants an opportunity to highlight the problems confronting the twin tribal communities putting up in various areas of Jammu division.
Listing the various schemes meant exclusively for the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, Taj called upon the participants to share the information about the welfare schemes with their community members and create widespread awareness about the schemes that are in vogue for their betterment. He assured the communities that each department entrusted with the implementation of various welfare schemes would be asked to organize awareness campaigns vigorously in far-flung areas so that the people inhabiting tribal areas are kept abreast about the welfare measures available for them at near their doorsteps.
The Minister also urged the community members to exhibit keen interest in the development of their respective areas besides, highlighting their problems at proper forums to get their lot ameliorated and emancipated.
Acknowledging the seriousness of the hardships being faced by the nomad families on account of their way of living, Mr. Taj advised them to bring complete transformation in their lifestyle, adding that unless the community recognizes the importance of education for their children in the changing world scenario they can not be in a position to avail the benefits of various development schemes meant for them. He told them to adopt latest and modern techniques for earning maximum dividends from their traditional occupation.
The Conference was attended by Gujjar and Bakerwals who had come all along from far-off areas of Doda, Kathua, Udhampur and Samba.
The prominent members of the community also addressed the convention and highlighted various problems confronting them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
