Excelsior Correspondent
RS PURA, Mar 27: All Jammu Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) has welcomed the decision of LG Administration that Panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir will soon have its own secretariat.
Addressing media persons here today, S. Gurdeep Singh Saini, State general secretary AJKPC and Sarpanch of Gandli Panchayat of Block RS Pura, said that the Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta has issued a directive that Secretariats will be run by the district administration at the Panchayat level and necessary directions have been issued to Deputy Commissioners to identify the government buildings.
“AJKPC welcomes this decision of the government and demanded from that it should be implemented in letter and spirit,” Saini said and added that due to no such system at present, people have to wander to get the work done at the Panchayat level, in such a situation, people will be able to meet the concerned employees and get their problems resolved by the formation of Panchayat Secretariat.
Saini expressed disappointment over the fact that after the completion of Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the government had entrusted the responsibility of 23 government departments to the Sarpanchs, but except a few departments, none of the departments cooperated with the Sarpanchs, due to which the work of people could not be done at Panchayat level.
“This decision of government needs to implement with strictness so that all the government works of the people can be completed in the Panchayat Secretariat itself,” he said, adding that with the formation of Panchayat Secretariat, the problems of the people would be resolved and the Sarpanch would also be able to place the problems of his Panchayat in front of the concerned officials.
Saini said that after the Panchayat, Block and District Development Council elections, the government is taking steps to strengthen the Panchayati Raj system, due to which the government has now decided to run the Panchayat Secretariat, but the point to be seen is that how much the government is successful in its decision and to what extent people’s problems would be solved.
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