One day Training imparted to officers deputed for “Back to Village”programme

SAYED KAMRAN ALI
Poonch, June 18 GNS : District Development Commissioner Poonch Rahul Yadav (IAS) today presided in training programme organised to sensitise the Gazetted officers of the district regarding “Back to Village” programme- Governance at doorstep of rural people.Additional Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner Development, Sub Divisonal Magistrate, BDO’s besides concerned District and Sectoral officers and Master Trainer’s remained present during training programme.

During the training programme the Trainer and others briefied the participants about the activities that shall be undertaken during implementation of the programme at Panchayat level collectively by the officers and PRIs.

While addressing the officers who have been deployed in different Panchayats of the district under “Back to villages ” DDC directed them to ensure that their stay should be of at least two days including a night halt in the assigned Panchayat/Village. He further told them to interact and obtain feedback from the Panchayat representatives, elders and other local people about their concerns, developmental needs and economic potential of the area in most transparent , responsive and unbiased way.

He instructed to give wide publicity to said programme by various modes so that rural poor among the poorest of poor could appraise his concerns as well as genuine issues during the visit of visiting officers.

He stressed on distribution of services such as PRCs, RBA and EWC, pension scheme, PM KISAN certificates beside providing technical know-how being adopted in the Horticulture, Agriculture, Animal and Sheep husbandry, fisheriesdepartment.

He further remarked that the main purpose behind organizing this holistic programme is to identify Five main economic drivers of the Gram Panchayat, five major problems confronting the people in the Gram Panchayat, Five major potential areas of the Gram Panchayat, seven urgent public demands in order of priority, any major complaint, overall assessment of public services , overall assessment of panchayat functioning etc.

DDC directed to officers to submit 14-Page Report and 2-Page Assessment in a transparent manner so that real picture of the area is presented to the Government . He further directed the visiting Officers to become perception-gatherer rather than data- collector.

ADC informed the participants that District Administration is going to organise “Back to village” programme from June 20th to June 27th 2019.