Member Legislative Council (MLC) Bashir Ahmed Shah Veeri who is also chairman of Departmental Related Standing Committee (DRSC), today reviewed the functioning of education, PHE, Irrigation and Flood control, R&B and Cooperative departments today.The officers on the occasion apprised the minister about various developmental projects. Chairman directed the officials to expedite work on the ongoing projects for timely completion. He expressed concern over slow pace of work on some of the road projects. He asked the officers to regularly visit the working sites to stay abreast with physical progress and ensure timely completion of the projects.MLCs Jugal Kishore Sharma, Saif ud Din Bhat, Ramesh Arora, Qaisar Jamsheed Lone were also present in the meeting. The Legislators suggested several innovative measures to improve and upgrade the water availability in the district besides ensuring the sustainable use of available water.Jugal Kishore raised some issues of damage of roads due to cable laying digging, proper survey of four lane from Domail to Pouni, running of bus service from Katra town towards SMVD University, slow construction of roads and bridge works, completion of water supply schemes especially Anji to Pangan Devta, functioning of LIS Kundra, Talwara and Jerri.
Ramesh Arora elaborated on conservation of water resources through check dams, restoration of existing ponds, thrust on springs besides exploring other possible means to increase the water availability in the areas.The chairman instructed the engineers to complete all the schemes of NRDWP and PMGSY roads in phased manner so that poor people get benefit out of them. He also took detail of CP and Part time workers of PHE and Irrigation which need to be regularized. While taking review of the education sector, the Chairman stressed on improving quality of Mid-day Meal being prepared in the schools and discussed the steps required to reduce dropout rate among girl students.District Development Commissioner Ravinder Kumar, Engineers, Chief Education Officer and other officers were present in the meeting.