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Hello Jammu News at 9:46:00 PM 0
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, Dr. Gurvinderjeet Singh


Udhampur, Jan 21 : Additional Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, Dr. Gurvinderjeet Singh today convened a meeting of district officers to finalize the arrangements for the celebration of Republic Day-2020 at Udhampur.

Threadbare discussions were held on various arrangements related to the smooth conduct of the function like seating, barricading, drinking water and power supply, sanitation, first- aid, security, transport, traffic regulations and refreshment to students participating in the National function.

The meeting informed that the day would start with playing of Shehnai Vadan by the District Information Centre, followed by flag hoisting by VIP at PG Degree College for Boys, Udhampur at 9:55 AM and march past by the contingents of District Police, SKPA, NCC and school children of various educational institutions.

ADC asked the concerned officers to ensure better coordination for making effective arrangements pertaining to their departments for making a function grand success. He asked the officers and employees of all departments to remain present at the venue on the day of function.

Deputy Director Employment, Subash Dogra, Chief Executive Officer Municipality, Santosh Kotwal, District Sports Officer, Swarn Singh, District Social Welfare Officer, Sana Khan, ETO, Rupali Vaid, Tehsildar Udhampur, Mohit Gupta, besides District Heads of various departments, representative of schools, colleges and District Police were present in the meeting.
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Dr Jitendra Singh conducts public outreach programme at Udhampur


Udhampur, Jan 19 :  Union Minister of State in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh today conducted public outreach programme at Subash Stadium, Udhampur.

Commissioner Secretary, Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment J&K, Sarita Chauhan, District Development Commissioner, Udhampur Dr. Piyush Singla, SSP, Rajiv Omparkash Pandey, ADDC, Ashok Kumar, BDC Chairpersons, and other district Officers besides Councillors ,Sarpanches , Panches , Ex-MLA , Udhampur and large number of prominent citizens attended the programme.

The outreach programme witnessed participation of BDC Chairpersons, Councilors, Sarpanches, Panches and general public hailing from different areas of the district.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Singh said that the objective of holding public outreach programme is to disseminate the information about various government schemes and to take review of implementation of these schemes on the ground. He said that various projects already sanctioned for the district are under execution and these projects will take Udhamphur to new heights of development.

Dr Singh said that government has taken various initiatives for the development of Union Territory of J&K. He said that by removing the Lakhanpur Toll Plaza various commodities are available at low rate. He said that Government is committed for equitable development of all without any discrimination.

Dr. Singh appreciated initiatives of DDC Udhampur in conceptualizing project Jeevika and developing an IT App Sakoon-e-Awam. He hoped that these initiatives will be replicated in whole country. He also gave Rs 40 lakh from MPLAD for the project Jeevika and asked DDC Udhampur to take some other projects in convergence with MPLAD.

While responding to the demands of local representatives, Dr. Singh ensured that election to 3rd tier of PRI will be held shortly. Dr. Singh stressed on empowerments of PRIs and also ensured that all the demands of the district Udhampur will be full-filled on priority.

During the programme, different government departments like Agriculture, Health, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, etc. had set up their stalls for the general public regarding awareness of different Government schemes. Dr. Singh also inspected various departmental stalls on the occasion. He also distributed invoices under PM-Kisan scheme, Ayushman Bharat Golden cards, invoices for pensioners, and sports kits under Khelo India on the occasion.

Later, Dr. Singh also visited the Chhattrambli, Panchayat Chak Rakwalan where he inaugurated the Jeevika project conceptualized by District Administration Udhampur. He also interacted with the farmers and advised adopting mushroom cultivation, organic farming and using vermi compost in their area to increase their agriculture income.

During the visit Dr. Singh inaugurated/ laid foundation stone of various ongoing works which include Augmentation of 33/11 KV, 6.3 MVA to 10 MVA at receiving station Devika Ghat & Dhar road, installation of 1.60 MVA 22O/132 KV/11 KV Transformer at Grid station, approach road to Disaster Management Complex at Birwan, construction of road from Pad Devta bridge to Kund Devta (Jaganoo), repair and renovation of old block of Dak Bunglow, modernization of club building complex , up gradation of PHE distribution network in Udhampur town, constructions of WSS Malad, Battal, Thanoa svail, Cupar Chang, Rathian Udhampur. Various works of RDD executed under 14th FC, MGNREGA, SBM, and PMAY.

He also inaugurated Murals made on walls of Subash Stadium. During a plantation drive, envisaged to emphasize significance of tress for saving our planet, Dr. Singh and Commissioner Secretary also planted plants in Subash Stadium.
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Udhampur, July 08  :   District Administration Udhampur has targeted to complete survey of dropouts by July 25, 2019 launched as part of its “Back to School” initiative.

The district administration has launched the campaign to cover all children below 14 years and ensure that no child remains out of the school.

The survey to assess the actual number of “Out of School Children” is on in the district and will be completed by July 25, 2019. The children below 14 years of age and out of schools shall be identified through Zonal Education Officers by involving Panchs/Sarpanchs and civil society members.

The district administration has decided to provide monthly allowance and free books to this target group and introduce special bridge courses offering different levels of education.

In this regard, District Development Commissioner Dr. Piyush Singla today chaired a meeting to review the progress made so far.

The meeting discussed in length the modalities for evolving quality education system and ensure 100 per cent enrollment in the schools, besides bringing down the dropout rate to zero.

Meanwhile, the Education Department has set up 24 x 7 helpline (01992 – 272727/272728) to obtain any clarification in this regard. 

The Deputy Chief Education Officer, Ram Kumar Gupta (contact No. 9419215154) has been designated as Nodal Officer.
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Udhampur, June 29  :   District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Dr Piyush Singla chaired a meeting of district officers of various departments to finalize the schedule of activities for effective implementation of “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" scheme in the district.

DDC stressed on involving all stakeholders for effective implementation of the scheme. He also advocated for conducting massive awareness programmes in the District for maximum impact under the scheme. DDC asked all district officers to speak for 5 minutes on BBBP in every awareness programme.

General public was appealed to come forward and participate in save girl child campaign and inform about the person involved in sex determination and get a suitable reward up to one lakh, adding that, identity of informer will not be disclosed.

DDC appealed to all the stakeholders of the district to actively participate for the successful implementation of the scheme. He called upon the people to come forward for availing the benefits of various social security schemes and programmes.

All district officers, including BDOs, CDPOs, BMOs, MOs were present in the meeting.
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Udhampur, June 27  :   District Development Commissioner, Dr Piyush Singla, today convened a meeting of executing agencies and District officers of various departments to review the status of implementation of Pollution abatement of river Devika and Tawi under National River Conservation Plan (NRCP), .

Chief planning officer Rajeev Bhushan,Assistant Commissioner Development, Neelam Khajuria, Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Vikar Giri, SE UEED, Executive Engineer UEED, Jammu Taj Choudhary, other District / Sectoral Officers of different departments, engineers and contractors of executing agencies were present.

Detailed discussions were held on various issues which included status of execution of work on three STPs and 7 IHSPs and timely completion, Vetting of design by MNIT, IEC activity for sensitization and behavioural change among the masses about the sanctity of holy River Devika and Pert chart for evaluation and monitoring of the project on regular basis, Status of shifting of utilities.

DDC took extensive review of pollution abatement of Rivers Devika and Tawi project and expressed anguish over slow progress of execution work under taken by concerned agencies. He asked concerned authorities to expedite the pace of work.

Executive Engineer UEED informed the meeting that design of sewerage network is completed and vetted adding that work of Zone 1 and Zone 3 is approved and in Zone 3 work is going on.

DDC fixed targets for the month of July and asked the concerned agencies to submit daily progress report.

DDC directed the UEED to submit all the approved design to the executing agencies and ensure work is started on all components of the project. He also asked the ACD to start IEC activity around the Devika area.

DDC expressed anguish over the working of project management consultancy (PMC) and asked PMC to monitor the work on daily basis and submit report and ensure quality and design of work is intact.

DDC stressed for adherence of timeline in completion of this prestigious project.
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Jammu, Oct 12 (PTI) A drug peddler was arrested after intoxicants were allegedly found in his possession in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district Thursday, police said.

A police team intercepted the man at Roundomail area and recovered 600 tablets of Tramadol, an intoxicant, from his possession, they said.

A case has been registered.

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Udhampur, Oct 05 :A Veterans Rally was organised at the Udhampur Military Station today. The Rally was organised as part of Indian Army’s ongoing initiative to commemorate 2018 as the ‘Year of the Disabled Soldiers in Line of Duty’. Lt Gen JS Nain, Chief of Staff, Headquarter Northern Command was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

The rally was attended by a large number of Veterans from Udhampur and surrounding areas. An ‘Awareness Camp’ was organised by the Directorate of Indian Army Veterans, ECHS, Directorate of Resettlement North, Zila Sainik Board. A medical and Dental Camp was also organised on the occasion.

On this occasion an exhibition of paintings by children of various Army schools and Kendriya Vidyalayas of Udhampur on the theme ‘Year of the Disabled Soldier’ was also organised.

Lt Gen JS Nain felicitated 22 Veterans who suffered various injuries in 1965 and 1971 wars and operations during their service. He also welcomed the Veterans and apprised them of the endeavours towards improving facilities for Veterans.

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Hello Jammu News at 7:33:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, OCTOBER 03: Social Welfare Department today organised series of events to mark the celebration of Senior Citizens Week.
 The events were held under the supervision of District Social Welfare Officer, Sana Khan.
 An awareness generation event was organized at Little Angles Wonderland High School, wherein information and guidance was provided regarding care and protection to be given to the senior citizens through Social Welfare Department and other stakeholders.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief guest Dr. Anirudh Rai, Collector Northern Railways Udhampur, sensitized the children about the need for care of grandparents and people in old age in general by engaging with them in various acts of kindness.
Highlighting the role of younger generations in providing care and security to the elders, District Social Welfare Officer, urged the people to come forward for the welfare of the senior citizens as they are the backbone and knowledge house of the society.
Further, a pledge was also administered to the children to take care of the health, feelings and wishes of the senior citizens as a young men’s service. As a token of respect and appreciation, souvenirs were also distributed among the elders working in the institute.
   Earlier, in another event at Jagriti Old Age Home an interaction was held with the inmates who shared their experiences with the officers and officials of the department. Along with prayers for their wellbeing, the department also distributed fruits among them.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:30:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, OCTOBER 03:  Financial Commissioner Revenue (FCR), Dr. Pawan Kotwal today reviewed the progress on Digitization of land records here at a meeting of concerned district level authorities.
  Regional Director Survey and Land Record Rajesh Shavan gave brief about the latest status of the implementation of the project in the district. He apprised that   about 5 lakh documents have been scanned of which 197 stands checked by the department in terms of its quality.  He said that due to space constraint the department is not in a position to keep pace with scanning work.
The FCR asked the DC to work out the possibility of additional space to the Regional Director for putting additional scanning machines and creating more quality check cells.
He also asked the DC to work out the estimate and prepare the type design for modern record room.
Later, FCR accompanied by Deputy Commissioner, Ravinder Kumar and Regional Director Land Survey Records & ACR inspected ongoing Girdawari in village DallahGangera. The FCR asked the concerned for demarcation of public path in Gangera and directed RDD to construct this path at an earliest. He also asked the DC to furnish the list of villages where post of numberdars are vacant.
Kotwal advised the revenue officers to conduct regular field visits and verify the work of Girdawari as per the statutory instructions. He also asked the DC to send a report along with copies of FardPartals indicating the details of inspections conducted by each revenue officer.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:18:00 PM 0

Udhampur, Sept 28: On 27 Sep 18 in the afternoon hours Air Force Station, Udhampur was tasked to carry out Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission in Himachal Pradesh, close to Chamba and Kilar valley. Two aircrafts were launched from Air Force Station, Udhampur immediately. They had a tiring task of landing at a small helipad at Chamba that could accommodate only single aircraft. On reaching, the aircrew realized that there were 52 school children aged 9-10 years stranded at Chamba town for past 10 days . The children were from a school at Kilar and were to be airlifted back to Kilar. 
Additionally, 45 medical personnel were found stranded at Kilar at an elevation of more than 9500 feet. There is a highly treacherous ridge (Kund) between Chamba, which is at an elevation of more than 3000 feet and Kilar at an elevation of more than 9500 feet. Both the aircrafts established an air bridge between Kilar and Chamba, crossing a pass more than 15000 feet. Air bridge is a term generally used in aviation to signify routes and means of delivery material from one place to another by an airlift.   It is a kind of a link by air transport between two places separated by inhospitable/ unreachable terrain. More than 35 children and 25 adults were rescued till sunset of 27 Sep 18. Additionally, on 28 Sep 18, 26 medical personnel were rescued from Kilar to Chamba and 24 children from Chamba to Kilar. Both the aircrafts and crew have come back safely to Air Force Station, Udhampur. Government of Himachal Pradesh has applauded the efforts put up by Air Force Station, Udhampur towards Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:56:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 20: District Election Officer, Udhampur  Ravinder Kumar today informed that the nomination papers of the contesting candidates in the district for upcoming ULB polls shall be submitted in the office of RO/ARO.
 The DEO further said that a total of 55 ROs and AROs have been appointed for completing the election process for one Municipal Council and two Municipal Committees of the district and there are 68 polling stations established at different locations of 41 wards for 35,519 voters to cast their vote.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:34:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR SEPTEMBER 18: As part of fortnightly ' Swachhta hi Sewa' campaign, Rehri and Farhi Union Udhampur today conducted an awareness programme regarding Swachhta Hi Sewa here at Mini Stadium.
District Development Commissioner, Udhampur Ravinder Kumar was the chief guest on the occasion.
Earlier, Chairman Rehri & Farhi Union, Hans Raj Thakur presented welcome address and gave full assurance to the DDC that all the fruit and Vegetable vendors are ready to contribute towards Swachhta and also took pledge not to use polythene and sell any items in polythene bags. Besides this he appealed to the customers to bring biodegradable/Jute bags for carrying fruits and vegetables.
The DDC appreciated the efforts of the representatives of Rehri & Farhi union and assured full support from district administration in making the district neat and clean.
The DDC appealed to the general public including shopkeepers not to use polythene, while enumerating its harmful effects both on human health and environment. He asked the common masses to use biodegradable materials such as paper, jute etc.
Among others present were   Chief Executive Officer Municipality, Santosh Kotwal, Naib Tehsildar, Balwant Singh, President Rehri Union, Yash Paul Gupta, President Farhi Union, Kuldeep Singh besides other members of the union.
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UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 17: In view of the   forthcoming Municipality Elections, District Election Officer, Ravinder Kumar today appointed Returning Officers (RO’s) and Assistant Returning Officers, (ARO’s) for the three Municipalities of the district.
The schedule for the Municipality Elections was already announced by the Chief Electoral Officer, J&K.
District Election Officer, Udhampur appointed 14 Returning Officers and 41 Assistant Returning Officers for 41 Municipality wards of the district for smooth conduct of Municipality Election.
          Earlier, the DEO briefed ROs & AROs about the preparations and activities to be carried out in the district for upcoming Municipality elections. He   asked them to work with full dedication, impartiality and create a free and fair environment to boost morale and faith of voters in democracy and to ensure maximum participations in the elections.
The DEO asked the ROs & AROs and Nodal Officers to follow the elections guidelines and conduct the elections in a free, fair and transparent manner. He urged upon all the Officers to work in close coordination so that the ULB election are conducted successfully in the District.
Among others present were (Probationer), Santosh Sukhdeve, Dy DEO, Sapna Kotwal, District Information Officer, Er. Sajad Bashir Somberia, Dy Registrar Cooperative, Dr. Pardeep Singh besides other Officers/ Officials of concerned department were present on the occasion.
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‘Swachhta Hi Sewa’ campaign launched
UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 15: Cleanliness is not the responsibility of only few people but it is collective social responsibility. District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ravinder Kumar stated this during the launch of ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’ campaign here today at Conference Hall of DC Office Complex, Udhampur.
Speaking on the occasion, the DDC highlighted the role of every individual towards fulfilling the objectives of the campaign. He appealed the common masses to join hands with district administration for public interest regarding sanitation and making the district clean. 
Achieving the goals of the Swachh Bharat Mission expeditiously will be an appropriate tribute to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, he maintained.
The DDC also launched a brief activity calendar for district wide sanitation campaign for next 17 days. He asked the participants to identify main spots where sanitation is required urgently and make a visible change during this campaign by cleaning these spots.
Later, the DDC also administered the Swachhata pledge to the officials of various departments present on the occasion.
Among others, Probationer, Santosh Sukhdeve, ADC, Krishan Lal, CPO, Rajeev Bhushan, GM DIC, Suram Chand Sharma, PO ICDS, Rimpy Ohri, ACR, Subash Dogra, SDM, Basantgarh, Attar Chand, DIO, Er Sajad Bashir Somberia and other district officers besides representatives of Beopar Mandal, social activists of the district were present on the occasion.
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Stresses on achieving 100% target under SAUBHAGYA
UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 15: To review the SAUBHAGYA and other centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) of Power sector for Udhampur and Reasi District, a meeting of officers was held under the Chairmanship of Commissioner/Secretary, Power Development Department, Hirdesh Kumar in the Conference Hall of DC Office Complex, Udhampur here.
The meeting was attended by District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ravinder Kumar, Chief Engineer Project Wing, Avinash Dubey, Chief Engineer EM&RE, Sudhir Gupta, Director Planning PDD, Rakesh Jamwal, Chief Planning Officer, Rajeev Bhushan, Assistant Commissioner Development, Noor Alam, SDMs besides other district and sectoral officers of concerned departments and field functionaries of PDD department.
Executive Engineers of the concerned districts gave a power point presentation of targets and achievements under various schemes.
During the meeting, Kumar took an extensive review of various schemes being launched by the government of India under Gram Swaraj Abhiyan including SAUBHAGYA, PMDP, Deen Dayal Upaddhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana and other such schemes.  He directed the concerned officers to engage in a significant outreach programme to push its flagship programmes for achieving “100% targets in rural as well as urban areas under SAUBHAGYA.
He further directed for setting weekly and monthly targets of electrification and completion of the pending targets.
Kumar stressed on providing electricity to the deprived households in these districts under SAUBHAGYA and other rural electrification schemes by November this year.
He appreciated the efforts of PDD, Udhampur for minimum AT & T losses and asked the department to reduce these losses further.
The DDC informed that the necessary instructions have been already given to the concerned officers to involve Numberdar, Chowkidar and field functionaries of other Line departments to achieve the targets under several power schemes on mission mode for which. Executive Engineer PDD was also asked to submit micro planning to cover the left-out households to avoid last moment pressure.
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Jammu, Sep 15: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has set up a Narcotic Awareness Recidivism Control (NARC) cell in Udhampur district to prepare database of all hardcore criminals to counter organised crime in the state, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

The cell, headed by two sub-inspector rank officers, including a computer expert, was set up in May-June this year and is vigorously working on preparing the database of all hardcore criminals and narcotic and bovine smugglers who are frequently found involved in various intermingled criminal cases, senior superintendent of police, Udhampur, Rayees Mohammad Bhat told.

"This is an effort to maintain database and records of narcotics traders and peddlers so that we can have a full picture of the drugs network and tackle the problem holistically," he said.

He said it aims to control narcotics spread, prevention and repeat offences with awareness initiatives and also unearth the network of illicit drug trade operatives.

Despite strenuous efforts of the police, the drug trafficking and its abuse has witnessed an alarming increase over the past couple of years.

Former director general of state police S P Vaid had termed the drug menace as a "bigger challenge" than terrorism and said contrabands were being pumped from across the border.

Till August, police has registered 453 cases and arrested 645 persons under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, while over 40,000 patients were treated at the drug de-addiction centres opened by police at various places, including the capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu.

"The fractured efforts never give us a picture of the illicit drug trade going on between various parts of the state and the setting up of the NARC cell is an effort to tailor a bigger picture out of the fractured parts," the SSP said.

Bhat said the NARC cell was tasked to unearth the network of organised crimes so that they could be booked under stringent laws, besides attachment of their property raised through illegal means.

The officer said the police is making efforts to wipe out the drug menace and are frequently organising lectures in colleges and schools to motivate youth to keep away from narcotics.

"We have produced a movie on drug awareness 'Ujadta chaman' and showing it to the students," the officer said.

Meanwhile, the Udhampur police chief said a hardcore narcotics smuggler was arrested and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) on Friday.

Rafaqat, originally hailing from Assar village of Doda but currently staying at Devika village of Udhampur, was arrested and booked under PSA, he said.

"A dossier with regard to his criminal activities was prepared and submitted before district magistrate Udhampur Ravinder Kumar, who after careful consideration issued orders of his detention under PSA," he said.

He said Rafaqat was a habitual criminal and arrested several times in the past in different cases of henious nature, including narcotics and attempt to murder, he said.

He is the second narcotic smuggler booked under PSA in the district in nearly two months.

In July, hardcore narcotics smuggler Umar Jaan was arrested under PSA in the district.

In Udhampur district, the SSP said 65 drug peddlers were arrested and 50 cases registered under relevant sections of law till August ending this year.

The seizure made from the drug peddlers include 805 kg of poppy straw, 3.4 kg of charas and 322 grams of heroin, he said. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 7:12:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 13: With an objective to create reserve manpower for propagation techniques and job opportunities for local youth, the department of Horticulture, Udhampur in collaboration with KVK Reasi conducted a ‘Skill Development Programme’ at Government fruit plant Nursery, Badolla Udhampur here today.
Conducted under the guidance of Director Horticulture, Jammu Anuradha Gupta, around 22 trainees belonging to farming community of the district participated in the training programme.
During the training, the resource persons stressed on the need for encouraging the concept of organic farming and minimizing the use of chemical fertilizers in Horticulture. They also informed the participants about the “Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)”, a centrally sponsored scheme for the holistic growth of the horticulture sector covering fruits vegetables and other crops.
Chief Horticulture Officer, Brij Vallabh Gupta asked the farmers to avail the maximum benefits of such schemes for raising their living standard. He assured the farmers that all efforts would be made by the department to provide quality plants and other required inputs.
Scientist from KVK, Reasi Dr S N Querishi also delivered a lecture on Scientific Management of Nursery including budding grafting techniques.
Later, the Chief Horticulture Officer distributes tool kit sets among the trainees.
District Horticulture Officer, Udhampur Rajesh Pangotra, Horticulture Development Officer, Rajesh Gupta besides other officers of concerned department and trainees attended the training.
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UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER10: Udhampur district achieved Open Defecation Free (ODF) status with the culmination of three-day Maha-Shramdaan on Monday during which left out Individual Household Latrines (IHHL) units were completed under Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen (SBM-G)
To celebrate the successful culmination, an impressive function was organized by District Administration where deputy commissioner Ravinder Kumar declared the district as ODF.
Secretary Rural Development Department, Sheetal Nanda participated through Video Conference and congratulated the DDC   and his team for accomplishing the mission in shortest possible time as till March 2018 the sanitation coverage of the district was below 30%.
The DDC interacted with the people of different Panchayats through video conferencing and appreciated the efforts made by the district Officers as well as general public for the construction of toilets in the left-out households. He said that cleanliness is the subject which directly connects with our culture as our ancestors believed that prosperity comes where there is cleanliness and cleanliness is next to godliness.
 The DDC congratulated and extended his best wishes to the people of the district in general and ODF team of the district in particular.
He gave full credit to the volunteer groups and civil society to make this campaign a “Jan Andolan” which reinstated that “Sanitation is everyone’s business”. While narrating Udhampur district’s journey, he stressed on the importance of behavioural change and the proper dissemination of twin-pit technology across all beneficiaries of the district. He mentioned that the biggest achievement of the district administration is to ensure construction of toilets without the mention of any incentive or money to the beneficiaries & self-construction was key in this mission.
The DDC also mentioned about the role of Nisha Kumari, a school going girl who went on   hunger strike to force her parents to construct a toilet at home. He also expressed gratitude to 87-year elderly women from Badali village who constructed a toilet by herself for her family. The DDC also thanked all employees of the district administration for having a significant contribution in the mission, including the employee transferred elsewhere now. Braving all climatic, geographic and other challenges, DDC highlighted the role of awareness campaigns such as MashaalYatras, Morning Nigrani as well as local solutions to local problems.
Meanwhile, BDO Udhampur gave a detailed presentation on the mission ODF and highlighted how administration faced different challenges and solved these   during the mission. Designated Panchayat Nodal officers, Sarpanches and other stakeholders also shared their experience. 
The function was attended by senior civil and officers, filed functionaries and civil society members.
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Hello Jammu News at 8:06:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 10: Deputy Commissioner Ravinder Kumar today reviewed the progress of land acquisition for development projects and requisition pertaining to defence here at a meeting of officers of concerned departments. 
The DC directed the officers concerned to release the pending compensation of Land Acquisition cases taken up under different sectors without any delay. He also directed concerned Collector to take up work of land acquisition cases on priority basis so that people do not suffer any more. The DC said that such negotiations will expedite the process of land acquisition and help in speeding up the progress of the development of different projects in the district.
Meanwhile, Special Collector Defence, Udhampur Abdul Sattar gave a power point presentation on Authentication of revenue papers, Preparation of revenue papers of 20 requisition cases, Joint verification in 6 requisitioned cases where revenue papers cannot be prepared right now due to certain reasons, preparation of revenue papers in fresh cases of 1 FOD, furnishing factual report by Tehsildar Udhampur regarding encroachment of the requisitioned land at village Sui, Sambal and Chakhar and army to take a decision for its acquisitions, release of the rent of the requisitioned land at Village Sui, Sambal and Chakhar to the land owners,  release of funds for acquisition by Air Force and BSF, De -requisition of land measuring 5 Kanal 13 Marlas under responsibility of 1 FOD at village Rehmbal, Progress report of land acquisition pertaining to AIR Force and BSF of special collector defence Udhampur etc.
During the meeting, Acquisition of 101 requisitioned cases and 98 Kanal Acquisition for land hiring was taken up  
Among others, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Krishan Lal, Defence Estate Officer Circle, Udhampur Hitesh Dhiman Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Subash Dogra, Tehsildar, Udhampur Ved Parkash, Naib Tehsildar in the office of special Collector, Raj Kumar besides senior officers of civil administration, Army, BSF and CRPF were present in the meeting.
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Hello Jammu News at 8:47:00 PM 0

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 06: District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ravinder Kumar today initiated Maha Shram Daan at Basantgarh Block in Udhampur District.
Speaking on the occasion, the DDC said that the Maha ShramDaan   aims to involve all stakeholders to contribute voluntary labour for completion of toilets under SBM Gramin and making district ODF. The three-day long program will target all left out households that have not completed their IHHL units, he added.
Udhampur district have constructed 74587 toilets and coverage is 98% and remaining 1000 toilets are to be completed through this innovative idea, the DDC informed, adding that, the district administration has constituted internal ODF verification teams comprising of officials from department other than RDD, which have been directed to verify the ground reality of the IHHL units constructed in respect of all the panchayats of district Udhampur.
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