Urges SWD to
work towards making every Anganwadi Centre a model centre
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Jammu: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan
today chaired a review meeting of the Social Welfare Department (SWD) to
discuss the implementation of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes here at Civil
Secretariat.
The meeting was attended by
Principal Secretary Social Welfare Department, Shailendra Kumar; Director
General SWD Jammu, DG Women and child Development, Mission Directors of
Integrated Child Development Services, CPS, SCST & BC Development
Corporation and other senior officers.
While as DG SWD Kashmir, all
the Deputy Commissioners of J&K, Programme Officers and district Social
Welfare Officers participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
Speaking on the occasion,
Advisor Khan urged the officers to create mass awareness regarding the schemes
so that every eligible person would be benefited from these schemes.
He also directed the Deputy
Commissioners and Social Welfare officers to streamline all the flagship
schemes under ICDS and their implementation in letter and spirit.
He also stressed for physical
and financial achievements of ICDS which include achievements under
supplementary nutrition, cases pending due to various reasons to be settled
within stipulated time frame.
The Advisor also directed for
regular visits at every Anganwari Centres to monitor the nutrition being
provided to children and asked the officials to work towards making every
Anganwadi centre a model centre.
The Advisor directed to make
application forms available online in order to facilitate poor and destitute,
and added that the system should be streamlined to ease the poor sections.He
stressed finalization of all cases of widow pension, and other pension
cases, scholarship schemes to students
as early as possible. He asked the officials to work with missionary zeal as
the department is catering to the poor and weaker sections of the society.
The Advisor also reviewed the
status of National Social Assistance Programme, One Stop Centre, Mahila Shakti
Kendra and other pension and scholarship schemes.
Earlier, Principal Secretary
Social Welfare, Shailendra Kumar gave a brief about functioning of the
department to the Advisor. He also informed him about the various pension and
scholarship schemes being run by the Department.
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