Former Congress Minister and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori during a meeting held at Kishtwar today review the performance of various departments of the district. Saroori while chairing the meeting exhorted upon the officers to discharge their duties with a missionary spirit and asked them to come up to the expectations of people of this remote and backward district.While reviewing the performance of Education department CEO KIshtwar informed Mr. Saroori that lack of staff in the schools hamper the functioning of schools as around 29 posts of Master in Kishtwar zone, 48 in Chatroo zone, 23 in Drabshallah zone, 34 in Thathri and Bhatyas zone are lying vacant. Saroori has urged upon Director School education to fill up all the vacant posts in the education Department to ensure quality education in the backward area.
In a separate meeting with officials of Border Road organization (BRO) and District Development Commissioner (DDC) Kishtwar, Mr. Saroori discussed the matter of Kilometer 52 to 110 of Kishtwar road, Thathri Bazar issue, Damage of “EID GAH” due to road cutting, Thathri to Kishtwar patch work, premixing, installation of crash barriers in accident prone areas, Re- alignment from Drabshallah to Foghmur area and urged BRO for immediately disbursed compensation of structures, land and fruit plants from Narein to Chingam road. Officials of BRO informed MLA Saroori and DDC Kishtwar that Rs 324 crores has been releases by Minister of Surface transport for widening and up gradation of 52-110 km up to Kuleed Chowk Kishtwar.
Saroori pressed the administration of Kishtwar and Beacon to start widening of road from Malipath to Sangrabhatta as all the documents pertaining to the said road stands submitted to ACR. He urged Administration and Beacon authority to start work on Shaheedi road having DC Office, ITI, PWD office, Tehsil office, police station, Hospital and other important government offices are situated on this road stretch. He also stress for immediate shifting of utilities like electricity poles for smooth work.He also urged the BEACON officials to speed up all the ongoing work and engage more beacon labour from Chatroo and Chingham side so that work will be completed in a time bond period so that general public will avail benefit from these projects.
Saroori urged GVK company to immediately release Rs 16 crore to Power Development Corporation (PDC) for expedite of work through BRO.Regarding PMGSY, R&B, Agriculture, Horticulture, PHE and Irrigation department Mr. Saroori directed the officials to speed up all the ongoing schemes under PMGSY, NABARD, JKPCC, R&B, State and district sectors and disbursed the compensation of road as soon as possible besides directed them to implement District developmental board (DDB) meeting decisions and to implement their schemes in an effective manner.
Saroori also directed agriculture department to implement the Saffron Development Mission in letter and spirit and immediately issue seed to Thakrie, Sarthal, Saroor and Prem Nagar area.Additional Director CAPD Kishtwar and TSO’s informed Mr. Saroori that there is shortage of 400 Quintals of Sugar, 1200 Quintals of Atta and 600 Quintals of Rice for the month of October.Saroori conveyed the problem of shortage of ration to Commissioner Secretary CAPD telephonically. Commissioner Secretary assured Saroori that soon adequate ration would be released to the respective ration stores of the state for onward distribution among consumers. He also said that more stocks of ration in advance will be done to cater to the needs of the people of the respective areas.
Saroori showed his anger towards Rural Development Department (RDD) for not speeding up MGNREGA work in the district as only 10% work has been completed till date besides officers of the department informed Mr. Saroori that no cement has been distributed in Drabshalla block and yet to start Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) and bad Pocket work. He directed the ACD and BDO’s to held a public darbar in the respective areas and redress the grievance of public demand and speedup all ongoing works.The meeting was attended by District Development Commissioner Baseer Khan, officers of Beacon, Education, Power, R&B, PMGSY, CAPD, PHE, Revenue, RDD, Agriculture, Horticulture and Irrigation.