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Hello Jammu News at 8:27:00 PM 0

KATHUA, JULY 07: Director Rural Development Jammu, Mohammad Mumtaz Ali today inspected various ongoing works here in block Hiranagar, Barnoti and Marheen.
Later he took a review meeting to take stock of the performance under various centrally sponsored schemes like MGNREGA, PMAY-G and SBM in the district.
The Director reviewed scheme wise progress of works and   exhorted upon the officers to work with zeal and come up to the expectations of poor people.
Various directions were issued by him with regard to the quality of ongoing works, their timeline completion and addressing the public grievance on priority. He also laid stress on completion of PMAY-G Houses without delay and according to norms with minimum disaster reduction using column structures.
He warned officers against poor performance and gave direction to complete all works in stipulated time.
The meeting was also attended by ACD Sukhpal Singh, XEN REW and all field officials, BDOs, AEE, etc.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:41:00 PM 0

 Stresses on effective implementation of schemes
JAMMU, MAY 25: Minister for Housing and Urban Development Sat Sharma today chaired  a meeting to review the functioning of Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board and the progress of various developmental works being carried out by the department
The meeting was attended by Financial Commissioner Housing and Urban Development Department, Krishan Ballabh Agarwal, Managing Director Housing Board Manmohan Singh, besides other senior officers and engineers of Housing Board.
The meeting was informed that the Housing Board has generated Rs 24.50 cr revenue in the year 2017-18.
While reviewing the status of PMAY-HFA(Urban) Mission, the Minister was informed that Housing Board has got approval for 14036  houses under central assistance of Rs 210 crore and work has been started for 2000 houses in the state, which are at different stages of completion.  It was informed that status based geo-tagging of these dwelling units has also been completed.
The Minister was informed that  25 cities- towns   of the state would be covered under PMAY Phase-I    including   Jammu, R S Pura, Samba, Kathua, Basholi, Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur, Ramban, Kishtwar, Bhaderwah and Doda of Jammu division and  Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Anantnag, Bijbehara, Shopian, Pulwama, Baramulla, Sopore, Handwara, Kupwara, Leh and Kargil   in Kashmir division .
The Minister directed the authorities for effective implementation of various components of the scheme.  He asked them to hold review meetings twice a month to assess the progress and process of implementation of the Housing for All Schemes.
            To cater to the increasing Housing demands in urban areas, the Minister directed for vertical expansion of cities by construction of residential flats in different colonies of Housing board. He further directed the Managing Director to expedite the work for development of Kathua and Reasi Housing colonies. He also directed for allotment in respect of 93 plots in Kathua through lottery draw.
Earlier, M D Housing Board gave detailed resume  about working of the board which include  contract of infrastructure development of various other departments and development of own housing colonies and settlement of ownership issues in different colonies of the state.
The Minister was informed that all the records of the Housing board have been digitized and efforts are on to switch over to complete e-Governance system.
        Later, a deputation of JKHB daily wagers met the Minister and apprised him about their grievances regarding regularization.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:05:00 PM 0

Listens to issues of locals


JAMMU, MARCH 15: Speaker Jammu and Kashmir legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gupta today inaugurated newly constructed lane and drain here at village Khawaskhan of his home constituency Gandhi Nagar.
The works have been completed under the Panchayat Dharap CDF Scheme, by the Rural Development Department. MLC, Vikram Randhawa was also present at the inauguration.
Interacting with the locals, the Speaker said that the government is committed to provide all basic amenities to the rural people and focus has been laid on providing clean drinking water, better lanes and drains, road connectivity, education facilities, adequate power supply and health facilities.
The Speaker also chaired a public grievance redress camp and listened to people’s problem.  He said that maximum number of works have been completed in the area which was ignored by earlier representatives. He also assured that the pending works in the area would be taken in hand on priority basis.
The Speaker also assured the people that 100 KVA transformers would be installed to improve power scenario in the area.  
The locals also put forth their demands seeking inclusion of genuine families in BPL list, clearance of pending old age pension cases, benefits of PMAY and other schemes to the eligible people of the area.
The Speaker directed the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to provide succor to the needy people under state and centrally sponsored welfare schemes.  
The Speaker also went around the village to take firsthand appraisal of the development needs of the locals. He stressed upon the people to actively    monitor the quality and pace of progress of the ongoing works.
The locals expressed their gratitude to the Speaker for the development of the area and hoped that pending demands would also be met with same spirit.
MLC, Vikram Randhawa also spoke on the occasion and said that the government was committed to develop Gandhi Nagar as a model Constituency.  
A large number of people and officials of Rural Development Department were present on the occasion.
Earlier, the Speaker also launched a cleanliness drive under Swachh Bharat Mission at Gandhi Nagar near Laxmi Narayan Mandir.  

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Hello Jammu News at 6:45:00 PM 0


Calls for completing works under CM’s Commitments by March 31

 JAMMU, MARCH 03: Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice Abdul Haq Khan Saturdaydirected the officials of Rural Development to complete the fresh list of left over beneficiaries by March 10.
          The minister said this while reviewing the implementation of PMAY and Chief Minister’s commitments made during the public darbar as part of her “Public Outreach Programme”.
          The meeting was attended by Director Rural Development Jammu RK Bhat, Director Rural Sanitation Nazir Ahmad, Additional Secretary Rakesh Badiyal, Superintendent Engineer Jammu Balbir Singh, ACD’s and Executive Engineers of various districts and other senior officers of the department.
          Minister asked the officials to complete the process of preparing fresh list of houseless population to include the left out families by March 10 so that the same can be recommended to the central government.
          The minister also directed the officers to complete the target of 2016-17 under PMAY by the end of this month and the target of 2017-18 be completed by May 31.
          He said under PMAY, Minister said the government intends to provide Housing for All by 2022 and said government is determined to  achieve the target within stipulated time by providing  housing facilities to all the houseless population of the state by March, 2019.
          Abdul Haq also reviewed the works taken up by the department on Chief Minister’s Commitments made during the public darbar as part of her “Public Outreach Programme.
          Minister was informed that work is in progress in all the districts. He directed the officers to expedite the pace of work to complete all these works by the end of this month. He assured that the government will provide liberal funding to complete all the projects well in time.
          While emphasizing upon the officers to work with extra zeal and enthusiasm, he directed the concerned for early initiation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) and other necessary formalities so that all the undertaken works are completed within stipulated time frame. He reiterates the commitment of timely disposing the public grievances and said that necessary measures are being taken so as to comply with the directions of Chief Minister.

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Hello Jammu News at 6:48:00 PM 0


New Delhi, Nov 20: The Government is all set to cross the halfway mark in achieving its target, set a year ago, of constructing one crore houses by March 31 2019.
The Ministry of Rural Development said here on Monday that 51 lakh of these houses would be ready by March 31 next year. The targets had been set under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) exactly one year ago. As many as 55.85 lakh houses have already been sanctioned and work was under progress. The use of Socio Economic Census (SECC 2011), validation by Gram Sabha and use of space technology for geo-tagging has ensured that there are least inclusion errors and it is only the homeless and those living in one kuccha room with kuccha roof or two kuccha rooms with kuccha roof are the beneficiaries of this pro-poor programme, the Ministry said. Nearly 30 lakh of these houses have reached roof level of construction and 15 lakh of these houses are at finalisation level. As of today, 9.03 lakh houses have already been completed. It is expected that 10 lakh PMAY-G homes will be completed by November 30, 15 lakh houses by December 31 this year and 25 lakh houses, by January, 35 lakh houses by February 28 and 51 lakh houses by March 31 next year.  States like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and West Bengal have completed a large number of houses. New designs, local construction material, use of technology through rural mason training, geo-tagging of assets and payment directly into the account of beneficiary through IT-DBT platform have ensured transparent, hassle-free and quality programme implementation, the Ministry said. The homes are designed by the best of institutions after studying the existing local design typologies and are constructed by beneficiaries as per their need. These homes are not only changing the rural landscape but also bringing about a social transformation in villages across the country. The homes are equipped with facilities like toilet, LPG connection, electricity connection, safe drinking water among others. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 8:06:00 PM 0

KATHUA, NOVEMBER 07: Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sham Lal Choudhary chaired the  District Development Board  review meeting to assess sector wise physical and financial progress here  today. He also reviewed the progress of implementation of previous board decisions.
 Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh, MLA Kathua Rajiv Jasrotia, MLA Bani Jeevan Lal, MLA Hiranagar Kuldeep Raj, Vice Chairman OBC Board Rachhpal Verma, Vice Chairman SC Board Bhushan Dogra, Vice Chairman Gujjar Bakerwal Advisory Board Choudhary Zaffar Ali, MLC Balbir Singh, ADC Rashpal Singh and SSP Suleman Choudhary were also present in the meeting.         
The Additional Development Commissioner briefed the meeting about the physical and financial progress achieved under different schemes in the district. He also presented sector-wise physical and financial progress under PHE, PDD, PWD, PMGSY, Education and Health besides schemes/programmes under MGNREGA, PMAY, Health, Animal Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, Horticulture, Fisheries sectors were also discussed in detail. He further apprised the meeting that 68.42% of expenditure has been made from the available funds till October, 31st 2017.
          Sham Lal Choudhary who is the Chairman of the Board called for early completion of projects where funds have been sanctioned. He stressed upon the executing agencies to prioritize works of different departments already approved under CAPEX budget adding that  the respective MLAs should be taken on board while taking up new works in their constituencies and give due consideration to the projected development  needs of the area . The pending projects shall be taken up on priority so that the benefit of respective schemes shall reach the beneficiaries at the earliest, he added.
          The chairman also called for explanation of all the Head of the Departments who were unauthorizedly absent from the review meeting. He also stressed on making expenditures as per the approved plan outlay.

Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh called for full utilization of the available funds and completion of ongoing projects within stipulated time. He stressed for early completion of water supply schemes especially in hilly and far off areas. He impressed upon the PHE, PDD and PWD departments to make constituency wise comprehensive plan to meet the developmental needs so that benefits of the scheme reach the ultimate beneficiaries besides fixing the time frame for major projects. He also called for fresh survey for PMUY for increasing the coverage of this scheme.
          MLA Kathua, Rajiv Jasrotia highlighted the issues including parking locations in the town, shifting of DC office building, ISBT, Amusement Park, Mango village and making arrangement for funds under Capex Budget for establishing grain procurement centres at Kathua.
          MLA Hiranagar, Kuldeep Raj also projected issues including augmentation of receiving stations of PDD, mini secretariat at Hiranagar, upgradation of Hospital building, land compensation for border dwellers, early completion of 6 Tube Wells under NRDWP and completion of roads under PMGSY, GREF, CRF and PWD.
          MLA Bani, Jeevan lal apprised the meeting about pending works in his constituency including MGREGA liabilities, pending water supply schemes, High School building at Lohai, inadequate teaching staff, forest clearance for PMGSY roads including their joint inspection, outsourcing of tourism assets, less budgetary provision under Capex Budget and discrimination in 13 FC funding.   
          Vice Chairperson State Advisory Board for the development of Gujjars and Bakerwal, Choudhary Zaffar Ali, called for the optimum utilization of Tribal Sub Plan and stressed for fresh census of the community so that benefits can be reaped from the targeted welfare schemes.
Vice chairman State Advisory Board for Welfare and Development of OBCs. Rashpaul Verma demanded OBC hostel at every District and also highlighted several vacant key posts of Kathua District.
          Responding to the issues raised by legislators, the Chairman assured them for their redressal in time bound manner.
          Among others, HODs of various departments and concerned senior officers were present in the meeting.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:30:00 PM 0


GANDERBAL OCTOBER 24:- MLA Ganderbal Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Tuesday distributed cheques to 15 beneficiaries hailing from Block Lar, Ganderbal, Wakura and Shairpathri identified for assistance under PMAY (CDF) of Assembly Constituency Ganderbal.

Additional District Development Commissioner Ganderbal, N.A Baba, Assistant Commissioner Development Ganderbal, Jalal-ud-din Ganai, BDO’s and PMAY beneficiaries of different blocks were also present on the occasion.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:10:00 PM 0
Rs 6 cr transferred into accounts of 913 beneficiaries Addresses public meetings at Arnas, Mahore

        REASI SEPTEMBER 16- Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, today launched Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under centrally sponsored scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana' (Grameen) with transfer of over Rs 6 crore into the accounts of 913 beneficiaries as first installment.
MLA Gulabgarh Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Director Rural Development Department Ravinder K. Bhat, ADC Babu Ram, ACD M.Y. Malik,  PO IWMP Vivek Phonsa, District Panchayat Officer  Mukhtiar Ahmed, Executive Engineers and BDOs were present on the ocassion.
Speaking on the occasion, Abdul Haq Khan said that under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode of PMAY financial assistance is directly provided to the people through their bank accounts in few seconds by pressing a button thus ensuring cent percent transparency under the scheme. He added that in addition to this, two more installments of Rs.50000 and Rs.30000 respectively would be provided to the poor people. The scheme envisages providing of Rs.130000 to poor people under this scheme thereby enabling them construct their own houses
The Minister instructed the officers of RDD to conduct proper verification of people and prepare fresh lists of beneficiaries who fulfil the genuine criterion under the PMAY scheme. He also stressed on officers to check and verify the construction designs of the houses and also ensure its full implementation.
Meanwhile, it was informed that the DBT was today made into accounts of 79 beneficiaries of block Arnas, 47 from Bhomag, 127 from Chasana, 32 from Gulabgarh, 36 Jij Bagli, 32 Katra, 98 Mahore, 65 Panthal, 195 Pouni, 95 Reasi, 48 Thakrakote and 59 from block Thuroo.
The Minister complimented the beneficiaries for getting the first installment and asked them to use this assistance in making the house only otherwise recovery of funds would be made instantly besides withholding second installment.
The Minister appreciated the efforts of the officers of Rural Development Department for achieving the targets as fixed under PMAY and other schemes of the department in the district. He also stressed for accelerating the ongoing exercise of ODF initiative in the district.
Speaking on the occasion, MLA Gulabgarh lauded the process of development works taken up by the department in the district.
Later, the Minister convened public meeting at Arnas in which the local people raised the issues of development works in Judda, Thanpal, Salal, Thakarkote, Khanikote, Hunder, Chinkah and other hilly pockets of Tehsil Arnas.
The Minister also convened a public meeting at Mahore in which the people hailing from hilly areas of Chasana, Gulabgarh, Dewal, Badder, Larh, Tulli, Banna, Shikari, Dubri, Jamslan, Shajroo etc raised scores of issues related to lack of proper basic amenities in their respective areas.

Responding to the issues the Minister assured the public that all their genuine demands would be redressed on priority.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:40:00 PM 0
Ministers Visit District Court Complex Rajouri

RAJOURI, SEPTEMBER 14: Minister for Rural Development, Panchayat Raj, Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan and Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Information, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today handed over the sanction letters to 60 beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) involving an amount of Rs. 6.97 crores here today in a function organized by Rural Development Department at Dak Bungalow Rajouri.
The scheme aims at providing assistance to the poor and economically downtrodden for constructing residential houses.
Speaking on the occasion the ministers highlighted various aspects of the scheme and said the ambitious scheme has been launched with the mission of providing housing for all by 2022.
While emphasizing upon the concerned officers for bringing transparency in the implementation of various schemes, the minister said that our commitment is to uplift the weaker section of the society for which various schemes are afoot.
He impressed upon the BDOs to regularly hold Gram Sabhas to take people into confidence before starting any project and also stressed on them to display the list of selected beneficiaries under PMAY in every Panchayat to weed out bogus cases and to ensure the benefits entailed under the scheme percolate to the deserving candidates.
He said that a prototype has been adopted by the department for construction of houses under PMAY and the concerned officials to ensure that houses are built as per the prototype.
He called upon the ACD and DPO to effectively monitor all the works taken under PMAY, MGNREGA and SBA so as to ensure that quality is not compromised. He also impressed upon concerned to undertake works in convergence mode with other departments and create tangible assets for public utility.
While hailing Abdul Haq khan for his efforts in streamlining and bringing transparency in the functioning of the department, Chowdhary Zulfkar said the department has under taken development works in the district on mission mode. He said that many important projects like eco parks, bridges, school buildings, bunkers in shelling affected areas alongside LOC, trekking paths etc have been started by the department in convergence with other departments.
Among others Vice chairman State Advisory Board for PSP Kuldeep Raj Gupta, MLA Rajouri   Adv. Qammar Chowdhary, DDC Rajouri Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, ACD Noor Alam and BDOs were present in the function.
Later the ministers, Abdul Haq Khan and Zulfkar Ali along with MLA Rajouri, DDC and other officers visited the district court complex and held interaction with bar members. The bar president vehemently demanded the development of infrastructure for the court including lawyers’ chambers, sheds for litigants, library, sanitary complex and earliest acquisition land for construction of new court complex. He also proposed that a session court should be established at Darhal and Manjakote.

Mr. Khan also gave on-spot direction to the district administration to construct 12 chambers, sanitary complex besides ensuring earliest acquisition of land for shifting of the district court complex.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:26:00 PM 0

JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 06- Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today inaugurated three-day training programme on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan (SBA) at J&K Institute of Management Public Administration & Rural Development (IMPA&RD), Jammu.
 Vice Chairman and Director General, J&K IMPARD, Pramod Jain, Managing Director J&K Housing Board Corporation, Manmohan Singh besides officers of JKIMPARD and other concerned departments were also present on the occasion.
The objective of the workshop is to enable officers to create awareness among below poverty line urban masses about Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, rehabilitation of slum dwellers and to acquaint the participants with the latest concept of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
While speaking on the occasion, Deputy Chief Minister urged the participants to ensure wider publicity to various components of PMAY (U) by organizing ‘loan melas’ to facilitate interest subsidy to the beneficiaries. He also asked to involve private sector in a big way to promote ‘Affordable Housing’ in partnership. He stressed upon the participants to prepare a schedule and ensure timely execution of these schemes so that the people would be benefited.
Dy CM highlighted the urgent need for implementation of various guidelines related to Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. He stressed upon participants to work with missionary zeal to ensure benefit to the needy, to improve the society and uplift the deprived section in order to transform India.
 Dr. Singh asked for undertaking measures for making housing for all a big success. He said that all the schemes are initiated for providing general masses, affordable housing facilities within the city limits. He also laid stress on providing hygienic conditions to the citizens under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
He listed various initiatives taken by centre and state government under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan including urban solid waste management and disposal.
 Deputy Chief Minister welcomed the training initiatives taken by the JKIMPA&RD and said that such trainings will help in keeping the human resource well equipped with the best practices in the field.
Earlier, Vice Chairman and Director General J&K IMPARD welcomed Deputy Chief Minister and highlighted need for training on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan.
While highlighting the benefits of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana –Housing for All (Urban) Mission for urban area, he said that this scheme will be implemented during 2015-2022 and this Mission will provide central assistance to implementing agencies through States and UTs for providing houses to all eligible families/beneficiaries by 2022.

Representatives of Jammu Development Authority (JDA), Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC),  J&K Housing Board Corporation, NGOs and other concerned departments are being trained in the three day long training programme. 
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Hello Jammu News at 6:55:00 PM 0

RAJOURI, JUNE 14: District Administration Rajouri is celebrating "Making of Developed India Festival" at Government Higher Secondary School Rajouri from June 16th to 18th.
The festival will be inaugurated by District Development Commissioner, Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, at 09:00am, Friday, at GHSS Rajouri wherein an exhibition highlighting progress and achievements​ of different government departments will be held.
Departments have been directed by the DDC to showcase developmental works, highlighting achievements, and display material on awareness regarding development and welfare schemes.
There will be guidance sessions​by the experts on various State and Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
Focus will be on awareness sessions by resource persons on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, DDUGJY, PMFBY, SBM, MGNREGA, PMAY, MIDH and other State and Centrally Sponsored Schemes.

Beside appealing general public to participate in 3-day festival, the DDC has instructed concerned officers to ensure presence of students, teachers, aanganwadi workers and PRI members.
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