Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 12: Advisor to Governor B B Vyas today chaired to meeting to discuss the provisions of Ladakh and Kargil Hill Development Council Acts.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Home, R K Goyal, Commissioner Secretary Health & Medical Education, Commissioner Secretary GAD, Commissioner Secretary Revenue, Secretary Rural Development, Secretary Ladakh Affairs, Secretary Law, Director General Codes, Director General Planning, Director Budget and other senior officers of various departments.
Deputy Commissioners of Leh and Kargil participated in the meeting through video-conferencing.
The meeting discussed various issues related to the Hill Development Council and the demands being projected by the Councils like the provision of putting the funds of centrally sponsored schemes directly at the disposal of the Councils besides also having the provision of electing Deputy Chief Executive Councilor, leader of opposition and also having more controlling power of the employees working in these Hill Councils.
The meeting also discussed the issue of demand for granting more financial powers to the Councils.
The meeting discussed these issues threadbare and called for further deliberations with all the stakeholders and the concerned departments.
Meanwhile, Vyas directed the officers to ensure the time bound implementation of flagship Swach Bharat Programme (SBM) so that people of the State get benefitted by these initiatives.
The Advisor was reviewing the status of the SBM with Deputy Commissioners through video-conferencing.
He asked the Deputy Commissioners to setup teams of officers in their districts for verification of the assets created under SBM and report any lapses and wrongdoings for action.
The Advisor directed the officers to take up a survey of schools without toilets and get the toilets particularly for girl students constructed within shortest possible time in every school.
To ensure better transparency in the asset creation under SBM, the Advisor asked the Deputy Commissioners to ensure geo-tagging of all the assets. He also directed the officers to ensure maintenance of assets and go for periodical reviews to check their functional status besides MIS should also be updated regularly.
Vyas directed the DCs to ensure that timeline fixed for their respective districts are adhered to and called upon the districts lagging behind to make a determined push for it.
He also stressed on greater coordination and synergy between various departments including the Rural Development Department, PHE and other concerned departments and asked the DCs to ensure regular monitoring of the implementation progress.
The Advisor also directed for coming up with a comprehensive proposal for undertaking solid waste management waste programme and also ensuring its success. He said that this would go a long way in helping to keep the environs of our village and rural areas clean besides also contributing to clean ecology.
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