In order to address the public grievances and review the developmental activities executed by various departments, District Administration Kupwara today conducted a Public Contact Programme at Gugloosa Payeen under the chairmanship of District Development Commissioner Kupwara Khalid Jahangir.The District Development Commissioner was accompanied by Chief Medical Officer Kupwara, Chief Education Officer Kupwara, Executive Engineer R&B Kupwara, Executive Engineer I&FC Div Kupwara, Chief Animal Husbandry Officer Kupwara, District Social Welfare Officer Kupwara, Assistant Director CA&PD Kupwara, Tehsildar Trehgam, public representatives and prominent citizens of Gulgoosa.During Public Darbar, residents of the area highlighted the issues pertaining to drinking water, electricity, improvement in developmental activities, repair and renovation of roads, irrigation facilities for agriculture sector, removal of illegal encroachment on Kachariee Land / State Land, Construction of flood protection bund on Nallah Kehmil near Gugloosa, demand for improvement of HT/ LT network especially the 11 KV line from Tikker to Gugloosa.Speaking on the occasion, the DDC assured the public that their grievances and genuine demands will be addressed after proper scrutiny within stipulated time frame, while some demands of urgent nature were referred to the concerned departments for immediate redressal.
The DC directed Tehsildar Trehgam to remove all illegal encroachments from State Land and furnish action taken report at an earliest. Executive Engineer I&FC was directed to gear up the pace of work on war footing basis to avoid further losses to agriculture land and EE I&FC was directed to prepare DPR under convergence mode with MGNRGA in collaboration with Rural development Department for construction of flood protection bund on Nallah Kehmil.The DC directed Executive Engineer PDD Kupwara to take immediate measures for improvement of LT/ HT network on immediate basis for uninterrupted power supply.The DC directed Exen PHE Div Kupwara to take immediate measures for providing portable water supply to the residents of Gulgoosa Payeen and furnish action taken report with 15 days.Meanwhile the youth of the area raised the demand for development of Play ground at Guglossa. The DDC gave onspot directions to Block development Officer Trehgam and Tehsildar Trehgam to identify the land for development of play ground.Khalid Jahangir impressed upon all sectoral heads to devote time with sincerity of purpose for ensuring completion of all works as per guidelines within time frame.