Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Sept 8: District Development Commissioner Kathua Ramesh kumar today convened a meeting to review the progress under “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao”(BBBP) flagship programme in the district.
Stressing on involving all stakeholders in the programme, the DDC said that awareness programmes should be organised in every tehsil. He called for organizing educative sessions and programmes at village level and exhorted for synchronization among various departments to celebrate ‘Laadli Diwas’ on 19th of every month.
He directed CMO and PO ICDS to ask ASHA and Anganwadi workers to encourage women folks for institutional deliveries and avail benefits of various schemes and also maintain record of pregnant and lactating women. He also called for sensitizing people to give information about any occurrence of sex determination/ female foeticide in their areas, adding the information provider would be given a reward of Rs 50000.
DD Employment was directed to organize employment fair cum counseling camp for girls so that they can be groomed for better job opportunities, while DYSSO was instructed to organize special sports/ athletic meet for girls at district and block level besides organizing special coaching camps for girls in different games.
Representatives of Degree College were directed to chalk out plan for skill and personality development for girl students. CEO Kathua was directed to organize vocational training, skill development and to identify school dropout girls and help them to get them enrolled by providing every assistance viz books, uniforms, bags etc.
Earlier, DDC took detailed review of the functioning of the Revenue Department.
The progress related to status of Jamabandi and applications under RTI Act, and performance under Public Service Guarantee Act were reviewed during the meeting. He directed the concerned officers to remove the encroachments from the State land especially Kah-Charai land.
The Deputy Commissioner asked the concerned officers to ensure public services are delivered in timebound manner. He also called for submitting latest land acquisition statements for the major development projects in the district.
ADC Kathua, Dr. Bharat Bhushan, PO ICDS, RTO Kathua, ACD, ACR, CEO, CMO, DYSSO, District Information Officer Kathua and other District Officers were present in the meeting.
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