Focus on development
Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu recently asked all the District Magistrates (District Development Commissioners) of Kashmir Divisions for concerted efforts public outreach and public service.
He said that it was the priority of the government to redress the grievances of general public especially in the rural areas. In a recent high level meeting attended by his advisor and chief secretary, he asked all the officers to be responsive to the needs of common people.
He asked the District Magistrates to pay special attention to community empowerment and called for institutional arrangements for resolving the issues and concerns of underprivileged sections. Underlying the need for resolving the local issues faced by the people, he asked the officers for making extraordinary efforts on various fronts. He called for greater emphasis not only on developmental projects but also social and economic fronts.
He called for active and responsible participation of local democratic institutions including Block Development Councils and Panchayats in development process. He emphasized that with empowerment of local bodies there is an added responsibility and accountability on part of grassroots institutions to strengthen the local developmental scenario and making best use of resources made available.
People of Jammu and Kashmir need such active focus of administration on their concerns and for the resolution of their problems at the local level. They want that there should be accountability in the administration so that whenever they come with grievances they are addressed in time bound manner.
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