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Udhampur, July 10  :  To make “Back to School” initiative more vibrant and to ensure 100 percent enrollment in the schools, District Development Commissioner Udhampur, Dr. Piyush Singla today called for involving PRIs and civil society to bring accuracy in the school dropout survey.

The DDC was chairing a meeting to review the progress made in this regard.

Additional District Development commissioner, Ashok Kumar, Joint Director Planning, Rajiv Bushan, Chief education Officer, Sardar Daljeet Singh, ALC Ranjeet Singh,Project Officer, National Child Labour Project, Ram Paul Gupta, Deputy Chief Education Officer, Ram Kumar, Zonal Education Officers and Zonal Education Planning Officers of all the 11 zonal of Udhampur district attended the meeting.

While addressing the meeting, DDC said that the aim of launching such type of programme is to ensure 100 per cent enrollment in the schools, besides bringing the dropout rate to zero. DDC said that “Back To Schools” programme is launched by District Administration to cover all children below 14 years and also endure that no child be out of school. He said the campaign would go a long way in improving the quality of education and literacy rate in the district.

He stressed upon the zonal Education Officers to bring accuracy in the school dropout survey launched to assess the actual number of ” Out of School Children” in the district and complete the same by July 25, 2019.

The DDC emphasized that the children below 14 years of age and out of schools shall be identified by involving PRIs and prominent citizens of the area. For the purpose, he asked ADDC to spread the awareness of the initiative in the rural areas through field functionaries of RDD.

Singla said that District Administration is contemplating to provide monthly allowance and free books to the target group and special bridge course offering different levels of education by the existing staff. A 24 x 7 help line numbers (01992 – 272727/272728) has also been dedicated where any clarification in this regard can be obtained, he added.



UDHAMPUR, MAY 11: District Development Commissioner, Ravinder Kumar today convened a meeting here to review the functioning of control room established by the PHE department to deal with the grievances regarding the provision of water supply during the current summer season in different areas of the district.
Addressing the meeting, DDC directed the department to ensure the potable water supply availability in the areas facing shortage of the drinking water supply.
He asked the concerned to ensure that all resources are mobilized to provide relief to people during the summer season. 
It was also given out that helplines have been constituted aiming at addressing the water scarcity issues in the district whereby people can lodge their complaints. The helpline numbers are  9419161398, 9419161148 for PHE Sub Division Udhampur and 9419161837, 9419190625 for PHE Sub Division Ramnagar and 9419150400, 9419169298 for PHE Sub Division Chenani.
Among others, Chief Planning Officer, Ashok Khajuria, SE Hydraulic Circle, Ashwani Anand, Executive Engineer PHE Division Ashok Sharma, Executive Engineer, PHE Mechanical Division, Sanjay Sharma, AD Planning, Darshan Kumar besides other officers of concerned departments were present in the meeting.




UDHAMPUR, MARCH 16-: Deputy Commissioner, Ravinder Kumar   was felicitated   for  exemplary success achieved under ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ (BBBP) scheme by the district in a programme organized  here today.
Member Legislative Udhampur, Pawan Kumar Gupta and MLA Chenani ,Dina Nath Bhagat besides  ADDC, Arvind Sharma and ADC Krishan Lal and other district, sectoral officers and prominent citizens were present on the occasion.
During the programme,  Nodal Officer BBBP Cell, Rachna Sharma, gave detailed resume  of various activities undertaken in  ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan’  in last 2 years, highlighting  wining “Spot the Logo” contest and being  only district in J&K state to be  awarded by Prime Minister of India on the occasion of Pan India Expansion of BBBP Abhiyan .
While congratulating DDC , MLA Udhampur said that the objective of the scheme ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ is to make people aware about the importance of girl child in the society besides bringing about an attitudinal  change among the people towards girl child. He added that such awareness programmes would help in ensuring empowerment of women through education and equal participation in all the working fields besides preventing gender biased sex selective elimination of girl child.  
MLA Chenani , Dina Nath Bhagat   stressed on the importance of education of girls and  laid focus on wide awareness of various government schemes launched for the welfare of the Girls like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao   among people and urged the girls to avail benefit of these schemes.




UDHAMPUR, MARCH 03: District Development Commissioner, Udhampur Ravinder Kumar today visited Government High School, Rown and inspected the facilities being provided to the students including drinking water, sanitation and power supply etc.
The DDC also inaugurated water point in the school installed by 137 CRPF Battalion, Omara in the memory of martyr Vicky Kumar who laid down his life while serving the nation. Beisdes, the DDC along with Chief Education Officer, Udhampur J.R Bhardwaj planted saplings in the school campus and distributed schoolbags among the needy students of the institution
Commandant 137 Battalion CRP, C.R Mahapatra, Commandant 187 Battalion, CRPF Battal Ballian, Harinder Kumar and other officers of various departments were present on the occasion.


      UDHAMPUR, JUNE 20: Deputy Commissioner, Niraj Kumar, today convened a meeting of district officers and prominent citizens of the district to finalize arrangements for Eid-ul-Fitr.
During the meeting, the DC directed the concerned departments to ensure uninterrupted water and power supply, security arrangements and proper cleanliness in and around all Eidgahs and Masjids in the district.
Chief Sheep Husbandry officer and Chief Animal Husbandry Officer were directed to ensure sufficient availability of meat at affordable rates during the festival.
AD FCS&CA, Food Safety Officer and  Legal Metrology Department were directed to keep a check on the rates of essential commodities and were also asked to ensure that good quality of eatables were provided to the people.
Regarding security arrangements on the occasion, the DC asked the Police department to ensure the same by deputing police personnel at designated places in the town.
The Chief Medical officer was directed to provide adequate medicare facility and deploy an ambulance at both the Eid Gah and Jamia Masjid Udhampur during the festival.
In order to ensure free flow of traffic during the occasion, the Traffic department was directed to   deploy adequate number of traffic personnel at traffic jam prone places.