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| Border district registers record fall in infant mortality rate |
POONCH, SEPTEMBER 08: Member
Parliament Jugal Kishore Sharma today chaired the meeting of District
Development Coordination and vigilance Monitoring Committee (DISHA) Poonch to
review the progress of various centrally sponsored schemes being implemented in
the border district.
The meeting was attended by Vice Chairman State Advisory Board for the
Development of OBC, Rashpal Verma, MLA Mendhar Javid Ahmed Rana,
MLCs Yashpal Sharma and Pardeep Sharma, committee members K K Kapoor , Babu
Ram, Menu Bala, Rakesh Sudan, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Jafreed Ahmad and Naresh
Sharma, District Development Commissioner Poonch, Tariq Ahmed Zargar,
ADDC Abdul Hamid, ADC Gurvinderjeet Singh, ACD, CEO tourism, Executive
Engineers of PWD, PDD, PHE, PMGSY, besides other officers.
The MP reviewed implementation of various welfare schemes
launched by the government of India and sought feedback from
legislators, DISHA committee members for further improvement at implementation
level.
Jugal Kishore said that transparency and accountability should be maintained at
all levels of governance for visible impact on the
ground. He said that efforts will be put in to
bring more effectiveness in 'DISHA' by holding quarterly meetings to
review the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes(CSS).
He underlined the need for effective supervision and close monitoring of
the schemes and impressed upon the officers to create mass
awareness to extend the benefits to maximum number of people .
The Committee members reviewed the physical and financial progress
achieved by Rural Development, NHM, RAMSA, IWMP, Health, Education, PWD, PMGSY,
PHE and other departments under various schemes.
It was informed in the meeting that district Poonch has registered
record fall in infant mortality rate which is even below than national average.
Jugal
Kishore asked concerned officers to conduct regular field visits along with
field functionaries to resolve bottlenecks and address other issues for speedy
completion of projects.
He appreciated the efforts of district administration in effective
implementation of schemes like SBM,NHM, under PWD,PMAY, RAMSA,PMGSY, MUDRA etc.
He said that better coordination among the government departments helps in
preventing cost spill over of projects.
On shortage of doctors and other supportive staff in district hospital
and others affiliated health institutions, the house directed district
administration to conduct a survey to indentify the trained unemployed medicos
and para-medicos and engage them under NHM .
About effective implementation and success of MUDRA scheme, the chairman
directed the lead bank manager to educate and pass necessary directions to all
branch heads for liberal advancing of loans to unemployed youth for starting
their own business ventures.
Regarding poor conditions of some roads being maintained by BRO in the
region, the directions were passed to the concerned authorities to take up the
repair works.
Responding to the issues raised by legislators, the chairman
asked executive engineer PWD to prepare a Detailed Project Report for Poonch
circular road so that concerned central ministry can be approached for
funds under(CRF) scheme.
Vice chairman OBC Rashpal Verma took strong note of slow pace of
work on Kellar to Morah road & directed executive engineer to remove
bottlenecks, if any, and fast pace the work on priority.
MLA Javid Ahmad Rana , MLCs Yashpal Sharma and Pardeep
Sharma raised various development issues of the district and
their respective constituencies. The chairman assured that all issues
will be taken up with concerned union ministries for early solution.
Earlier,
DDC Tariq Zargar, gave a detailed resume of physical and financial achievements
of registered under various centrally sponsored schemes.
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