Commissioner Secretary, Forest, Ecology and Environment, Sanjeev Verma, who is also in charge for development of Rajouri district, today reviewed implementation of Centre and Union Territory sponsored development schemes here in a meeting held with the concerned officers.Deputy Commissioner, Rajouri, Rajesh K Shavan; ADDC, Pawan Kumar; Commander 31 BRTF, KRJ Reddy; DFO Rajouri, Arshdeep Singh; DFO Nowshera, Neelima; ACR, Tahir Mustafa Malik; CPO, Mohammad Khurshid; SE Hydraulics, JP Singh; SE PWD, GM DIC, Manzoor Hussain; CEO RDA, Vivek Puri; ACD, Sushil Khajuria; ACP, Abdul Rashid Kohli; PO ICDS, Kartar Singh; DSEO, Bilal Rashid Mir besides other concerned officers attended the meeting.The Commissioner Secretary asked the Executing Agencies to speed up the pace of progress on all development works being executed in the district under different schemes ensuring expeditious completion of these projects of vital public importance. He also asked for maintaining quality while executing works on development projects for creation of durable assets.Commissioner Secretary asked the concerned officers from RDD to make sure that all the houses sanctioned under PMAY-G in the district are completed by the end of March 2022 besides ensuring timely payments to the beneficiaries under the scheme.Regarding discouraging use of single-use plastic, Commissioner Secretary directed for generating massive awareness among the common masses about the harmful effects of plastic on health and environment and motivate them to go for eco-friendly alternatives of polythene.Highlighting the need to promote self employment generation activities in the district, Commissioner Secretary asked the concerned to make dedicated efforts to generate employment avenues for unemployed youth. He also instructed the concerned officer from the Labour Department to generate massive awareness among the public about various Welfare schemes being implemented by the department in the district to enable them to avail the benefits of these schemes.He also issued instructions to the concerned authorities for coverage of all eligible beneficiaries under the Forest Right Act so that they can be provided necessary benefits under the Act.
