District Development Commissioner Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary on Friday chaired a meeting of Nodal Officers and Media Personnel for Media Fellowship in Development Administration 2017-18 here at Dak Bungalow Rajouri.While speaking on the occasion, he impressed upon the media persons, selected for Media Fellowship, to do an in-depth and rigorous research of various welfare/development schemes under implementation in their assigned sectors.He asserted that the researchers should take up an objective and critical analysis of these schemes and highlight the critical gaps in their conception and implementation while giving due space to their positive contributions and success stories.He also emphasized that the research fellows should come up with realistic, creative and effective suggestions/recommendations based upon their field studies, interactions with beneficiaries, resource persons and other stakeholders.Dr. Shahid also said the administration has appointed a nodal officer for each sector of fellowship to facilitate collection of relevant data, easy flow of information, improved coordination and provision of logistics for field visits for successful completion of fellowship.
Earlier, District Information Officer Mohammad Shafait in his presentation briefed the officers about the Fellowship Programme, The meeting was attended by Regional Director Land Records and Survey Shoket Hussain Kazmi, Addl. DDC AS Chib, CMO Suresh Gupta, Chief Agriculture Officer Mohd Younus, AD FCS & CAs Javid Iqbal, Dy. Registrar Cooperatives Waqar Talib, AO RDA Liaqat Choudhary and TSWO Naseer Ahmad.Among media persons who participated in the meeting included Arif Qureshi, Gagan Kohli, Umar Arshad Malik, Sushil Dutta, Tazim Malik, Sahil Sharma, Avinash Jasyal, Jamsheed Malik, Emroz Suri, Imran Khan and Sahil Sharma.