Tuesday 24 September 2013

Foundation stone for 1341.60 lacs IWMP project sanction for Chatroo Tehsil also laid by Saroori





Public awareness program on Watershed management held at Mughal Maidan.

Kishtwar September 24:- Department of Integrated Watershed and Management Program (IWMP) today held a public awareness camp at Dadpath and Mughal Maidan area of Chatroo Tehsil of Kishtwar District and apprise the people about the two centrally sponsored schemes to be executed by the department in the area at the cost of Rs. 1341.60 lacs under Integrated Watershed Management program.

On this occasion by the centrally sponsored schemes named as Sigdi II (852.60 lacs) and Sigdi III (489.00 lacs) were inaugurated by MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori by laying foundation stone at Dadpath, Mughal Maidan and Sigdi in presence of large number of people.

“Union government under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh is committed for over all development of the backward areas of the state of Jammu and Kashmir”, Saroori said while addressing the public awareness camps at Dadpath, Mughal Maidan and Sigdi.

He said that union government has accorded sanction to three projects for Inderwal constituency under IWMP at an estimated cost of 1928.25 lacs. He said that two more projects named as Keshwan-Pakalan and Kither-Patnazi costing nearly 15 crore are in pipeline and added that within next two to three months, the union government will also accorded sanction to these projects as well.

Saroori said that union government is generous in allotting the funds to the state government under various developmental programs and urge the people to make judicious use of these funds, beside urge the officers of the District, Tehsil and Block level to work in coordination for better implementation of government schemes so that the people in real sense can avail the benefits of these schemes.

He said that central government flagship schemes like MGNREGA, NRHM and RAMSA has already started yielding results. He said that MGNREGA has changed the economic condition of the poor masses and said that he was hopeful that with the proper implementation of IWMP projects, the economic condition of the people living in these areas will improve further. He said that in order to check the corrupt practices in MGNREGA, central government has introduced Electronic Muster-sheet system and advice the job card holders to apply for guaranteed job in the office of concern BDO, VLW or Gram Sevak, beside provide a 16 digit bank account so that the money could be deposited directly in the bank account of the job card holder.

Saroori also praise the food security bill passed by the UPA government recently and added that food security bill will assure guarantee for two time meal for poor population of the country.

He also urge the people to maintain peace, communal harmony and brotherhood in the area and also urged them not to fall prey to the decisive forces who wants to divided the people on the name of religions.

The prominent among those including Project Manager IMWP Kishtwar Balbir Singh, District Level technical expert Dr Nowsheen, Project Assistant Firdous Ahmed Ganie, Technical expert Water and Management officer Suhail Mir and Naresh Kumar and Agriculture expert Shahnawaz Ahmed brief the people about the IWMP projects. CDPO Chatroo Kesar Bhawani, BDO Chatroo Semma Parihar, TSO Chatroo Tariq Hussain, officers of various department, Sarpanches and local leaders, beside public in large number were also present on this occasion.

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