Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, June 16: With an aim to distribute various items among the most needy and BPL category persons, a function was organized by the District Police Reasi, here today.
SSP Reasi, Tahir Sajjad Bhat handed over the relief items to needy people under Civic Action Programme.
The BPL families were identified under the jurisdiction of Police Station Reasi, Pouni, Katra and Ransoo with an effort to distribute these items among the deserving people.
Total 150 boxes of items were distributed among 77 families in Reasi, 20 in Ransoo, 20 in Pouni and 33 in Katra.
For distribution of the items, a committee was formed under the chairmanship of Sanjay Singh Raina, Addl. SP Reasi.
Speaking on the occasion, SSP Reasi said that Police would take in hand more initiatives of such nature in future also so as to reach to the grass root level and bridge the gap between Police and the public. He further said that given the present security scenario in the State, the Police Department was taking many initiative to come closer to the public and render all sort of genuine assistance to them.
The programm was also attended by Dr Nikhil Gogna, Dy SP Hqrs Reasi; Dr Satish Bhardwaj, Dy SP DAR DPL Reasi and Ashok Sharma, SDPO Katra. All these officers spoke on this occasion and apprised the participants about various schemes introduced by the J&K Police for upliftment of poor and weaker sections of the society.