KULGAM: Commissioner Secretary, Social Welfare department, Sheetal Nanda today visited Kulgam and conducted Public Darbar at the Mini-Secretariat here during which she listened and addressed various issues and grievances of locals.
The Public Darbar witnessed the active participation of locals and public delegations from Devsar, Frisal, Qaimoo, Yaripora, D.H. Pora, Pombay, Kulgam, Manzgam, and many other areas. The participating delegations apprised the Commissioner Secretary about their issues and demands as well as the developmental requirements of their areas.
Addressing the gathering, the Commissioner Secretary emphasized on government’s commitment to holistic development and timely redressal of issues and grievances of people.
She assured the participants that all their genuine demands and issues would be redressed on priority.
During the darbar, the delegations put forth various demands like the development of Children Park at Kulgam, road widening from the clock tower to District Hospital, the development of parking spaces in the main town, the construction of a new building for the tehsil office Qaimoo, augmentation of staff at Hospitals and various other demands were raised by the people from various areas.
A delegation of Specially abled persons demanded a replacement scheme of motorized tricycles, quota in the PMAY scheme, special recruitment drives for the specially-abled and other demands for the welfare and betterment of specially-abled persons.
All the issues and demands of people were listened to patiently by the Commissioner Secretary for early redressal.
Deputy Commissioner Kulgam, Athar Aamir Khan, while addressing the gathering said that demands were duly noted and would be addressed with the concerned authorities for appropriate action.
The public darbar was also attended by ADC Viqar Ahmed Giri; JDP, Zahid Sajjad; ACD, Syed Naseer; ACR, Mushtaq Ahmad Lone; ACP, Nazia Hassan; SDM Noorabad, Bashir Ul Hassan; DSWO, CEO, CMO, Executive Engineers, Tehsildars and other officers from district administration.