JK News Today
Bandipora, October 15: Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Dr Owais Ahmad on Saturday chaired a meeting of officers to review the progress of Deliverables, preparation for Jan Abhiyaan and other development programmes. The follow up meeting was convened to ensure time bound implementation of development and welfare based programs.
The meeting was attended by Additional District Development Commissioner Afsar Ali Khan,District Programme Officer Bandipora Mohd Ashraf Hakak, Additional Deputy Commissioner Waseem Raja, Joint Director Planning Imtiyaz Ahmad, SDM Gurez, SDM Sumbal, ACP, Tehsildars,BDOs and other senior officers of the district.
On the occasion officers informed the chair about implementation of various programmes and welfare schemes besides other developmental projects.
Dr Owais also took a detailed meeting on preparations for upcoming Jan Abhiyaan where all departments will work in synergy for ensuring saturation under various social security and centrally sponsored schemes. He said that the Panchayat wise details of achievements and targets in various sectors be summarised and work to be started in time bound manner to achieve the targets. He also said that the steps taken under SBM to be monitored on daily basis to ensure clean villages. He called for active support from all line departments in completing ongoing works under Jal Jeevan Mission, BADP besides the other developmental projects.
Dr Owais took detailed review of the expenditure under various schemes and sought response from the officer’s regarding the utilization of PRI grants and funds under the District Capex.
While reviewing the implementation fo various Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Dr Owais asked each department to submit the progress report and difficulties faced in the realization of projects to the office of Joint Director Planning with in the week’s time.
He directed Block Development Officers to ensure full realization of PRI grants and ensure the mobilization of contractors and staff for the better results.
He asked officers to ensure the cooperation and coordination with Panchayat Institutions and general public for the proper and efficient utilization of funds.
The meeting discussed key infrastructure bottlenecks to be resolved instantly to facilitate development and incur expenditure. Dr Owais asked the officers of various departments to work in coordination to ensure all the bottlenecks are removed at earliest so as to ensure the works are completed on time.
The meeting also reviewed the Panchayat wise saturation of wage employment and other schemes at the Panchayat level.
Dr Owais asked the officers to ensure that each job seeker gets employment and asked them to keep Panchayat wise list of job seekers so that they are accordingly facilitated to start their own income generation units with the help of available government schemes under various sectors.
The meeting also reviewed implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in the district. Dr Owais asked the officers to expedite the JJM works so that the pure drinking water is provided to every soul of the district as per the aims of the Mission.
DC Bandipora also reviewed the implementation of works under three phases of Back to Village programme so far.
He stressed on officers for the realization of deliverables of fourth phase of Back to Village which is starting from 27th October 2022.
He directed for the formulation of proper plans for the time of realization of deliverables under B2V4 Programme.
He also asked for constitution of district and Tehsil level committees for monitoring of progress in the deliverables for each department.
Switching over to e-offices was also discussed in the meeting. Dr Owais expressed satisfaction on the pace so far and asked officers to ensure complete switch over to E-Offices.
Dr Owais also stressed on strict adherence to Bio metric attendance system attendance in all government offices.
