Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, July 29: Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Sheetal Nanda, today chaired a meeting to take overall review of developmental scenario of Kathua district as the In-charge Secretary for monitoring the development related activities in the district.
At the outset, DDC, Dr. Raghav Langer presented the district profile besides overall status of developmental projects, implementation of state and centrally sponsored schemes, scenario of Health, Education, PDD, PHE, status of languishing projects and other development projects taken by various departments.
During the meeting, Sheetal Nanda exhorted on different departments to execute works in convergence with MGNREGA besides Chief Agriculture Officer (CAO) was asked to prepare a credible plan for doubling farmers income by motivating them to practice allied agri activities like Poultry, Bee Keeping, Horticulture and Fish Farming.
While discussing Agriculture Sector, Sheetal Nanda inquired about Organic Farming Projects, Intensive Vegetable Cluster Areas, Intensive Species Development Project, Trikuta Mushroom Project, Soil Health Cards and distribution of Kissan Credit Card(KCC) in the district.
She suggested for conducting area wise soil analysis, and educating the farmers to grow suitable crops and the nutrients to be added in the soil.
For effective implementation of schemes related to welfare of farmers, Sheetal Nanda stressed on setting targets and reviewing the progress after regular intervals so that achievement under different schemes can be quantified. She further asked to involve various Self Help groups in food processing activities as they will also help in generating extra income for farmers.
While discussing Animal Husbandry Sector she directed the DAHO to increase Dairy Farming and promote Poultry among farmers besides looking after the possibility of Broiler Hatchery in Kathua to encourage poultry farming.
Sheetal Nanda vouched for foolproof district disaster management and preparedness plan for Kathua. In this regard, she instructed to conduct regular training programmes continuous monitoring of flood prone areas.
Different languishing schemes under various sectors in the district were discussed threadbare and it was directed that all these schemes must be executed on time with regular monitoring mechanism.
Removing encroachment from Forest land, promoting Eco Tourism and giving Forest clearance for development projects were few issues discussed while reviewing Forest sector.
ADC Kathua, Ghanshyam Singh, ADC Billawar, Joginder Singh Rai, ADC Basholi, T R Thapa, ACR, Devinder Paul, ACD, Sukhpaul Singh, SDMs, DFOs,RTO, GM DIC, Engineers and officers of line departments were present in the meeting.
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