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J&K L-G e-inaugurates development projects worth ₹23.40 crore in Udhampur
Sinha interacted with scores of public delegations to take stock of their issues and developmental needs of the area.
People-centric governance along with hassle-free public service delivery is the prime focus of the UT administration, said Jammu and Kashmir Lt governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday.
Sinha was on his visit to Udhampur district where he reviewed the progress of various developmental activities. He also interacted with scores of public delegations to take stock of their issues and developmental needs of the area.
The L-G also e-inaugurated developmental projects worth ₹23.40 crore and virtually laid the foundation for projects under the water supply schemes costing ₹5.17 crore.
Reiterating the administration’s commitment for prompt redressal of people grievances, Sinha directed the officers concerned to take comprehensive measures to improve public service delivery and adopt a proactive approach for ensuring more responsive grievance redressal.
Laying special focus on the saturation of schemes run by the Centre and UT administration, the L-G directed the officers to take all the requisite measures to ensure 100% coverage of eligible beneficiaries.
For ensuring saturation of various beneficiary oriented schemes, the Lt Governor directed the concerned officers to roll out a comprehensive mechanism to take the benefit of Jan Abhiyan programme for mass contact, which is being held from September 10 to 30.
He also set September 30 as a deadline for 100% seeding of Aadhaar with ration cards and Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana registrations, besides directing for the mandatory payment under MGNREGA within 15 days. He also called for maintenance of inventory and asset register in each panchayat for the record.
While reviewing the status of Udhampur to Chenani NH-44, the L-G asked the officers to take necessary measures to remove bottlenecks for timely completion of the project.
Meets civil services qualifiers
Sinha also met this year’s civil services qualifiers at the Raj Bhavan in Jammu and congratulated them for their entry into the prestigious services.
The qualifiers included Majid Iqbal Khan from Nowgam in Anantnag, Abhishek Augustya, Devahuti, Sunny Gupta and Shubham Kundal, from Jammu.
He advised the young entrants to discharge their duties with utmost dedication, commitment, integrity and sincerity. He asked them to remain sensitive to the issues of the people and inculcate team spirit and cohesiveness in the public delivery system and work for the advancement of public welfare on all fronts.
