LUDHIANA:
Member of Parliament (MP)
Ravneet Singh Bittu on Wednesday ordered the officials to take local MLAs in confidence while implementing the government's schemes in the district. Bittu was chairing a meeting of District Development Coordinating and Monitoring Committee that lasted for around three hours in
Bachat Bhawan.
Speaking on the occasion, Bittu said, "Being elected representatives of the vast area (assembly segment), MLAs have a mass reach and officials can take their help during the starting any program or scheme in the district so that each eligible beneficiary can be covered. Officers should also organize awareness camps about the schemes so that people at grassroots can be enrolled under the various schemes run by central and state governments and the officers should also ensure that the works are executed in a time-bound manner”
The MP also said that all the departments especially education, agriculture, social welfare, health, Municipal Corporation, water supply and sanitation, rural development and others need to play an active role to facilitate the people who visit their offices daily. However while providing the details about the progress of various scheme, deputy commissioner (DC) Pradeep Kumar Agrawal told that 77 primary schools have been converted into the English medium institutions and claimed more schools would be added in this category in the coming days. He asked the officials of education department to also share the same information of schools with MLAs.
On being complained by one-member about the number of students staying in the residential hostel, DC asked SDM East to visit the hostel and give a detailed report. Agrawal also recommended the education department to organize sports championship at the district level to promote sports among the students and to inculcate sports spirit amongst them.
During the meeting, MP underscored the need for sensitizing parents, schools children and others about POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses) Act 2012 after which Deputy Commissioner told the education department to ask the school for holding awareness seminars and parent meets exclusively on POCSO Act so that they were well versed with the provisions of the Act and the rights in the coming weeks.
Former Minister Malkeet Singh Dakha, MLAs Surinder Dawar,
Bharat Bhushan Ashu,
Sanjay Talwar, Kuldeep Singh Vaid, Sarbjeet Kaur Manuke,Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development) Shena Aggarwal, PPCC Spokesperson Raman Subramaniam and other officials were present during the meeting.
