District Development Commissioner Kishtwar Ashok Sharma today laid the foundation stone of Integrated Watershed Management project here at Paddar in presence of BDC chairperson Padder Arpan Singh Rana; DDC Member Paddar, Hari Krishan Chauhan; Project Manager IWMP/ACP, Zakir Hussain Wani; SDM Paddar Rishi Kumar Sharma; BDO Paddar/Nagseni Abhey Indu Sharma besides other concerned officers and locals.Speaking after the foundation laying ceremony, the DDC informed the gathering that the IWM project is going to come up with a total cost of Rs 12.22 crore and it would benefit two Panchayats of Affani and Jar by covering 4550 sq. Hectare area.Later, the DDC Kishtwar also presided over the weekly block Divas programme at Karthaie Paddar where the people and local PRI raised their issues and demands pertaining to up-gradation of local infrastructure in Health, Education, road, power and water supply sectors.Many of the grievances were redressed on spot by the intervention of concerned officers.
Besides, the DDC assured that rest of the demands would be redressed in a time bound manner and has been documented and forwarded to concerned officers for prompt action.During the block Diwas, the PRIs and Public in general appreciated the efforts of district administration for sanctioning this vital project (IWMP) under PMKSY.Meanwhile, responding to the public demand of shifting the location of the wine shop to some other place, the DDC said that he would take up the matter with the concerned authorities for appropriate action. The DDC also urged the farmers to dedicate some portion of their land for ultra High density plantations to double their income.Meanwhile DDC Kishtwar also held an interactive session with the PRIs and discussed issues pertaining to the development of the area. Later base-line survey formats were handed over to concerned field functionaries for conducting the baseline survey of the project area.Similar, Block Diwas programme was also held at Village Bonda Pyt Chingam A, which is one of the far off area of Block Inderwal & was presided over by SDM Chatroo Inderjeet Singh Parihar in presence of BDO Inderwal Tasleem Wani besides various officials from various Deptts. and PRIs wherein majority of grievances raised by locals were redressed on spot.