Kupwara, July 26: Governor N.N. Vohra visited Kupwara district to review the pace of developmental works in the district.
He held a detailed interaction with the elected representatives MPs, MLAs and MLCs. The elected representatives raised several issues of public importance, most of which related to scarcity of drinking water in the district, long delays in starting works under Centrally Sponsored Schemes of the Power Development Department, liabilities under MGNREGA and Swach Bharat Mission and the need to expeditiously complete several long-languishing projects.
He took special note of water scarcity raised by a number of Legislators & directed the District Development Commissioner, Sh. Khalid Jahangir, to urgently identify water availability in the district and propose schemes to fully cover all uncovered or insufficiently covered habitations.
He also advised the District Development Commissioner to make use of the additional allocation provided under NABARD loan this year to propose critical projects to enhance water supply so that the pressing demands could be immediately addressed.
Governor later chaired a meeting of State, Divisional and District officers in which he reviewed the progress of all development works in the district.
He directed DDC to draw up a cogent action plan to ensure that available resources were effectively utilized for water conservation and to develop playfields in every village. In view of the water inadequacy in the district, Governor directed DDC to take all steps to harvest water and all schemes, including MGNREGA, should be converged towards this objective.
He ordered the Commissioner Planning Department to release an additional Rs.5.00 crore to the DDC including Rs.1.00 crore to be used by DDC as an untied grant, for accelerating and completing the ongoing works.
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