Rajouri,April,29:District Development Commissioner,Rajouri, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today chaired a public grievance redressal camp at Doongi an area very close to line of control .
The holding of the grievance redressal camp is a part of the district administration public outreach initiative aimed at reaching out to the public of this far-off area in efforts to address their developmental concerns and resolve longstanding issues of the population at their door steps.
Various Sarpanchs and public Delegations from areas including doongi,Keri, Narain,Shahpur,Agrati,and from other adjoining areas also attended the grievance redressal camp held at Doongi.
Various issues including those concerning healthcare, education, roads, transportation, communication, sports infrastructure, irrigation and financial services were raised by the representatives of these areas seeking time-bound redressal thereof.
Specific issues which were put forward by the sarpanches and panches includes, opening of Tehsil office at Doongi, construction of BDO office at Doongi, opening bid new health centres and availability of life saving drugs in the centre, adequate human resources at the PHCs and CHCs, augmentation of water and electricity for the block, completion of Dakbanglow sasalkote, upgradation of high school chalaas and Doongi.
They also demanded the opening of accidental hospital at Narain,opening of jk bank branch at Doongi ,opening of ATM and narian, construction of chalaas-Basali Road, Shahpur-Khankadhara road, construction big keri-tergyal bridge,Bus services kaller to Doongi, certification of private school buses,and pendency in sanctioning of pension cases.
Replying to issue raised by public District Social Welfare officer,Rajouri Mohd Naseeb informed that there are 1504 sanctioned cases and 1222 cases referred for approval.
Giving patient hearing to the deputations, the DDC redressed number of issues on the spot and directed the concerned to take necessary action on public issues immediately.
Regarding the functioning of anganwadi centres DDC assured that the district administration will ensure their proper working.
Regarding the augmentation of water supply for the area a number of water supply schemes like WSS for Agrati ward no.1,ward no.2,kaleri jageer ,and swank have been sanctioned under languishing projects.The work on these said schemes will start soon.
For the augmentation of power supply DDC informed that 22 transformers have been sanctioned for the block Doongi.He also informed that 1315 poles and 2 recieving stations are under construction to augment power supply.
DDC emphasized that there is need to do rational planning keep in view the resources and need of the people.
He asked try to complete the projects which are near completion rather than starting new ones.
Regarding construction of Roads DDC said the department of PWD will black top approximately 13.07 km of road in this financial year. The roads which are to be black topped includes chingus to Bagla,kaller to sawani,Thatahli to Shahpur and other.
DDC also said that district administration has issued schedule for the officers to attend the gram sabhas ,so that necessary cooperation can be imparted to the PRI for the strengthening of the PRI and bottom up planning.
Regarding the construction of bunkers DDC informed that 61 individual and 6 community bunkers were sanctioned for Doongi which are not sufficient.He said a list of 600 bunkers have been submitted for consideration.
DDC announced that department of agriculture and horticulture will jointly organised an awareness camp on 8th of may, 2019 at Doongi to sensitise the farmers about the new schemes and technology.Moreover a medical camp to provide certificate will also be organised in coming days.
DDC called upon the public to come forward to avail benefits entailed in various schemes, flagship and pan India programmes of the government. He also enjoined upon the concerned officers to hold awareness camps in this belt to spread awareness about various schemes of the department.