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| Cong on 'forefront' to ensure empowerment of Panchayats: Soz | | Advocates for 'honorarium' to Sarpanches, Panches | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: Asserting his stand once again on the commitment of the party, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President Chief and Former Union Minister Prof. Saifuddin Soz today made it loud and clear that Congress party is on the forefront to fully empower the Panchayat Raj Institutions in the state on the pattern of 73rd Amendment of the Constitution in order to make the Panchayats as effective institutions of local self government.
" Full empowerment of Panchayat Raj Institutions has to be there not only to realize the dreams of former Prime Minister late sh. Rajiv Gandhi but it is essential to make the Panchayats effective instruments of service to the people….", PCC chief maintained, while addressing a party rally here today. This is also mandatory as we are committed to come up to the expectations of the people at the grass root level, he added. Veteran leader , also an MP favoured that some honorarium should be paid to the Sarpanchs and Panches as they have to spend from their pockets to approach different authorities in the administration and government at various levels in connection with the problems of the people.
What made his statement more important today is the emphasis and assertion on constituting a committee of party functionaries to monitor the implementation of eighteen centrally sponsored schemes and see the possibility of associating Sarpanchs and Panchs with the process of implementation of these schemes.He informed the gathering that the Congress President Sonia Gandhi has instituted a committee at the national level for assessing implementation of these schemes and Shri Vilas Mutlambar-General Secretary AICC would coordinate at the national level.
The PCC president made these assertions while addressing a rally of the Labour Cell of the Congress party at Barnai Jammu today Prof. Soz said that Congress is a vibrant force in all three regions of the state and it stands guarantee for unity and integrity of the state and to ensure equitable and balanced development of the all parts of the state.
The rally was organised by PCC Labour Cell and attended by Senior leaders of party including S/Shri Member Parliament Madan Lal Sharma, Minister R.S.Chib, Mula Ram- Ex-Minister, Vice Presidents Yash Paul Khajuria-MLC, S.Gurmukh Singh; General Secretaries Ravinder Sharma-MLC, Kuldeep Raj Verma, Smt. Indu Pawar-MLA, Smt. Kanta Bhan; Hari Singh Chib, Parkash Sharma, S.Manjit Singh-Ex Minister, Lal Mohammad Sabir-Ex Minister, S.R.Sudhir and Manmohan Singh.
Exhorting the partymen to strengthen Congress Party, Prof. Soz said that the only way for this is to serve the people as has been said by Smt. Sonia Gandhi who has described politics as another name of service to people. He said that all partymen including ministers have to work hard in addressing the problems of the people and come up to their expectations to further strengthen the party.
Referring to the various demands of the labour class raised by Chairman PCC Labour Cell Hari Singh Chib, Prof.Soz said that he would take of the demands with the Central Ministry of labour and sort out the genuine demands at the earliest. He described working class as the back bone of the progress of the country.
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