Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 25: Minister for Housing, Horticulture, Culture, Youth Services and Sports Raman Bhalla today conducted an extensive tour of Gandhi Nagar constituency and inspected pace of progress on under execution civic and other development works.
The Minister also launched new projects at Ashok Nagar, Digiana, Gangyal Industrial Estate, Shanker Colony, Sanjay Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, Sunjwan and Channi Himmat involving a cost of Rs 41 lakh.
Interacting with locals, Mr Bhalla said that the Government was endeavoring hard to develop all the areas of the State with modern and need based infrastructural facilities adding that in this regard all the departments are working in a more organized manner for ensuring better services to the people.
Laying stress on maintaining quality standards, Mr. Bhalla asked the officers to conduct regular inspections of the under execution works to keep a check on quality of material being used.
Later, the Minister also visited Sunjwan village and listened to the genuine problems of the people. He assured them that their genuine hardships would be redressed on priority.
He said instructions have been issued to the allied departments to launch door-to-door visit for solving development related issues of the people on priority basis.
The Minister asked the Urban Environmental Engineering Department (UEED) to complete project like up-gradation of nallah in the locality within stipulated time frame.