Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, July 4: Interaction Forum-Jammu Province in its ongoing campaign to hold district level interactions, held its 5th interactive session at Reasi.
Earlier the interactions were held by the Forum at Jammu, Kathua, Rajouri and Udhampur to create awareness among the people of Jammu Province regarding various economical, social, political and developmental issues of Jammu Province.
The interactive session was attended by various prominent and intellectual personalities of Reasi, which included various veterans from varied disciplines. Nand Lal, Tehsildar (Retd.) presided over the meeting. Vijay Sharma Advocate, who conducted the programme, while welcoming the participants said that main aim of the interaction is to pool and harness the wisdom of various intellectual people and tap rich experience of veterans for betterment of the people and the area.
Various speakers who spoke on the occasion include Beli Ram, Sita Ram Tehsildar (Retd.), Pritam Singh Sarpanch, Munshi Ram Salaria, Sub Pritam Singh, Kuldeep Khajuria Former Head Master, Tariq Bhat, Kuldeep Dubey Advocate, Rajinder Sharma, Advocate, Varinder Magotra DFO (Retd.), Vijay Sharma Advocate, Comrade Sohan Lal, HC Jalmeria Advocate, BS Jamwal Dy Commissioner (Retd.) Capt Lalit Sharma and Ashok Sharma Advocate.
The speakers highlighted various local and core issues pertaining to Jammu Province. The speakers expressed concern for inadequate social infrastructure facilities pertaining to road connectivity, medical facilities and dearth of doctors, drinking water, education and power problems in Reasi District.They observed that the Central and State Governments take people of Jammu Province for granted and the people of Jammu Province suffer in the bargain. They stated that since about one crore pilgrimage come annually to Shri Vaishno Mata Ji Shrine and District Reasi thus plays a significant role in boosting economy of the state yet the district remains neglected. District has great potential to boost states economy especially tourism sector, which is totally neglected.
HC Jalmeria Advocate gave a historical prospective of the accession of the state to India and said that all area under illegal occupation of Pakistan is part of Jammu Province.
BS Jamwal emphasized upon collective and unified approach and work with honest, dedicated and missionary zeal for educating and boosting the economical, standards of the people of Jammu Province.
Nand Lal former tehsildar in his presidential address appreciated the quality of discussions and shared the view that Reasi District has remained neglected and deserves a fair deal.
Ashok Sharma Advocate and former MLA/MLC expressed deep concern over growing drug menace among the youth. He observed that the objectives of the Forum can only be achieved by making it a mass movement down to grass root level.
Besides others Pritam Singh, Krishan Lal , Kuldeep Khyer, M Akram Khan, Chain Singh, Sanjeet Singh, Dharam Singh, Er Mahesh Kumar Sharma, Mohan Lal Bali, Jaswant Singh, Mohan Lal Shan and RP Sharma also attended the meeting.
The vote of thanks was extended by Varinder Magotra, DFO (Retd.).
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