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KATHUA: Maintaining that people should strive to create diverse employment opportunities by opening small ventures under handicrafts, handloom, fisheries, poultry and dairy for which government departments are offering many schemes, the Deputy Chief Minister said that by doing so they would be creating job avenues for themselves as well youth, besides contributing their bit in improving the economic profile of the state
Deputy Chief Minister was speaking at a function organised by Animal Husbandry Department Kathua at Dayala Chak for providing financial assistance under Special Central Assistance (SCA) to Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP). Financial assistance of Rs. 10,000 each was provided to 59 persons of Billawar under the scheme having objective of giving thrust to family oriented scheme of economic development of SCs below the poverty line, by providing resources for filling the critical gaps and by analysing upon the local occupational pattern and the economic activities available.
Dr Singh said that the present dispensation is very keen to empower youth of the State to make them useful human resource, so that they can contribute in the multidimensional growth of the State. On the occasion DC Kathua Ramesh Kumar , SDM Hiranagar Sohan Lal , Exn PDD , Exn R&B , Chief Animal Husbandry Officer Kathua , Dr. Surjit Kumar , Live Stock Development Officer Kathua , Dr. S P Verma and Dr. Jagdish Raj, Panchs , Sarpanchs and people from Madoon, Plaea, Deho, Sallaha, Kanta, Katli and Began area were present.