RDD RAJOURI BAGS YET ANOTHER NATIONAL AWARD IN 2020 Panchayat Rathal and Badakana awarded DDUPSP, 2020

3 National Awards in 3 months

Rajouri,June 17:– The Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj has once again awarded another national award to two Panchayats of Rajouri district for their impressive performance in furthering empowerment of Gram panchayats.

Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar (DDUPSP), 2020 has been awarded to three Panchayats of Union Territory of Jammmu and Kashmir, two from Rajouri and one from Pulwama district.

Panchayat Rathal of block Rajouri and Panchayat Badakana of Plangar block have been awarded the national award for empowerment of panchayats through innovative interventions at various levels.

Rajouri district was very recently (April, 2020) awarded two national awards Viz. Child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award, 2020 and Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar, 2020.

Rajouri’s Panchayat Officer, Dr Abdul Khabir credited successive national level awards to people’s active participation in planning and implementation of various RDD schemes and receptivity and prompt execution of innovative suggestions by PRIs at various levels.

He said JK’s Panchayati Raj Secretary Sheetal Nanda has been persistent in ensuring that focus remains on massive public participation and keen interest and involvement of educated youth in planning and execution of works for social and economic development in villages.

Nazir Sheikh, Rajouri’s Development Commissioner told this reporter that these achievements are the outcome of people’s participation in planning and execution of development works. He dedicated the awards to PRIs and officers/officials of Panchayat department.

Sheikh who also headed UT’s Panchayats department as Director Panchayats said since the successful conduct of elections to PRIs, there is keen interest and motivation among people at village level to lead in furthering social and economic development at the grass root level.

Proliferation of democracy at village level and decentralised planning and execution by people themselves is key to empowerment of all at Panchayat level, he added.