Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 12: Minister for Planning & Development, Labour & Employment, Ajay Sadhotra met several deputations at Summer Secretariat today to listen to the demands and problems of the people.
A deputation of members of Chamber of Commerce led by its President Y.V.Sharma met the Minister and apprised him of their problems and demands which mainly include providing uninterrupted power supply for ensuring smooth business activities, time bound completion of the ongoing projects in the city, improvement of traffic scenario and various other developmental issues for welfare of the people.
Giving a patient hearing to their demands, Ajay Sadhotra assured due consideration to their genuine demands and said that various important projects have been taken up to speed up the developmental scenario in the region and thrust is being laid on their time bound completion. He exhorted the need for active participation of people for strengthening the initiatives of the Government to carry forward the development process in the state.
He stressed that Omar Abdullah led Coalition Government is committed to equitable development of all the three regions of the state and all efforts are afoot to ensure that people are provided all the basic amenities, adding that the flagship programmes have been launched under health, education, rural development sectors to improve the living standard of the people, especially the weaker sections of the society.
Various other deputationists from different parts of the Jammu region apprised the Minister of their demands pertaining to improvement in power supply scenario, adequate water supply, up-gradation of transformers, repair of lanes and drains and better civic amenities.
The Minister assured the deputations and individuals that all their demands would be met in a phased manner. He also directed the concerned officers to take up necessary steps to sort out the public issues and stressed that the concerned departments should ensure that the projects undertaken are completed in time frame and there should not be unnecessary delays which causes inconvenience to the general public.
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