Last man in last row should be our cherished target: DDC vice- Chairperson

Udhampur : Juhi Manhas Pathania, Vice Chairperson DDC Udhampur today said that ‘ the last man in the last row’ should be the cherished target and the very essence and edifice of a real Panchayati Raj.She was chairing ‘Block Diwas’ proceedings in block Khoon of district Udhampur. She called for a greater initiative on part of the officers as well as civil society of the area to ensure that benefits of government schemes and policies reach to the last man in the last row. She said that it is not worth talking of bigger targets, facts and figures and achievements until the public welfare schemes are not visible on the ground level.“And last man in the last row gets a feel of it as virtually he is also part and parcel of the process of development,” she said. She further said block is a grassroots level unit of development and efforts should be taken to make schemes, policies and programmes of the government successful at block level.

She called for greater synergy and state of art approach in firstly making aware the people about benefits of govt schemes and secondly facilitation and finally execution and due propagation of those schemes.She also called for immediate clearance of landslides on Dhema to Bilaspur and Sundla to Laa/Garh Samna Banj roads. She asked for qualitative and time bound execution of work on all road projects. She underscored the need for immediate start of work on the newly sanctioned building of Degree College Majalta. She said that Degree College in Majalta is an epitome of the struggles and endeavours of the people of Majalta.She further harped on various developmental initiatives like ‘Har Ghar Jal, Har Ghar Bijli, Sabko Muft Ilaaz’ and many more path breaking developmental projects undertaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government to shape the developmental profile of J&K in a better direction.Sarpanches, Romesh Gupta, Raman Khajuria, Mohan Lal Sharma, Surinder Singh, Manoj Kumar, Rattan Chand and PRI members, besides the officers of Agriculture, PWD, RDD, PHE, PDD, Social welfare and other departments were present on the occasion.