Balbir Ram, Vice Chairperson on the Board of Directors of J&K Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes Development Corporation chaired a meeting of the functionaries of the Corporation at Corporation Head Office, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
R.K. Pandita, Managing Director of the Corporation, apprised Vice Chairperson about various schemes which are being implemented by the Corporation, for socio-economic and educational upliftment of these sections of the society viz; scheduled castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, Notified National Minorities(i.e. Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis and Jains), Safai Karamcharis / their dependents and handicapped (Persons with Disabilities) categories, besides various bottlenecks faced by the corporation in implementation of these schemes.
In his address, Balbir Ram, while lauding efforts of management of the corporation, emphasized that target groups of the corporation need extra attention by the implementing agencies so as to improve their financial position by facilitating them to avail benefits of schemes of the corporation and make them self reliant.
The functionaries of the corporation were enjoined upon to ensure timely disposal of cases of target groups. It was also emphasized by the Vice Chairperson that the beneficiaries of the target groups should not face difficulties in completion of their required legal formalities for seeking assistance from the corporation.
Moreover, Vice Chairperson desired that during the next financial year various awareness camps for publicity of the schemes of the corporation be organized in different Districts of the State, so as to ensure that these schemes reach every nook and corner of the State and target groups get benefits of these schemes.
Vice Chairperson assured full support to the Management of the corporation in taking up various issues at appropriate levels with Government for redressal.
V.K. Tak, Financial Advisor/CAO, G.Q. Khatana, Divisional Manager, Jammu, M.I. Kataria, Manager Projects, Anil Gupta Manager Finance, Kasturi Lal Bhagat, Manager Recoveries, Joginder Paul Attri, District Manager, Jammu and Ms. Anu Gupta, Section Officer, of the corporation attended the meeting.
