REASI: District Administration Reasi under the headship of District Development Commissioner, Indu Kanwal Chib, today listened to people’s issues during Block Diwas programme held here at Mahore.
The block Diwas programme is held at the identified locations on every Wednesday as part of the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s public outreach campaign for the rural areas.
The local people of all surrounding Panchayats of block Mahore, Gulabgarh and Chassana participated in the programme and highlighted their problems and developmental issues.
SDM Santosh Sukhdeva, BDC Chairpersons, ARTO, CEO, XENs, BDOs, BMO, ZEO, District and block level officers and PRIs were present at the day long programme.
Scores of issues related to Water, Power supply, road, transport, ration, ICDS, Nutrition, education, health were resolved on the spot after face to face interaction with District officers, while for several other issues, the DDC fixed timeline for their resolution.
Speaking on the occasion, Indu Chib said that the main aim of the conducting such programmes is to improve service delivery and grievances redressal mechanism. She said the officers of Tehsil, Block and District level would remain available at these events to hear the public grievances for on the spot redressal.
Meanwhile, several grievances were forwarded to the concerned departments for prompt resolution through an established tracking system. In the programme, a review was also taken by DDC on all the issues flagged by local people in previous programs.
Moreover, instructions were also passed to the departmental functionaries for visiting their respective jurisdictions and listening to the grievances of the general public, besides holding awareness programmes, highlighting various individual beneficiary schemes across the Panchayats.
Similar, public hearing events for listening public grievances were also held at Reasi, Katra and Arnas where public gathering put forth their problems in front of the sectoral officers.