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JAMMU: Principal Secretary Housing & Urban Development Department (H&UDD), Dheeraj Gupta on Saturday observed that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing ‘Urban Renaissance’ from the past few years.
While chairing a meeting to review the preparations for the second phase of My Town My Pride (MTMP-2.0) here at Civil Secretariat, Dheeraj Gupta reaffirmed that the second edition of MTMP is going to be an occasion of festival of democracy.
While informing the meeting about the second edition of MTMP programme, he said that prior to actual MTMP, a weeklong programme of Shehri Jan Abhiyan will kick start from November 28 to December 4 in all 78 ULBs including two Municipal Corporation during which all departments will coordinate and make people aware about the government run schemes, CSS, beneficiary oriented schemes and suturating these schemes, besides improving service delivery.
He exhorted upon the concerned the programme must be taken to a different level this time to connect to the masses and meeting their expectations.
While providing broad contours of the MTMP programme, the Principal Secretary enumerated the activities to be taken during the two-day MTMP-2.0 to be started on December 5 and 6, he said that every ULB will be visited by visiting officers for 2 days.
He added that the programme will also help to identify areas where there is need to do more and make future plans in these ULBs.
He said during MTMP-II, Deputy Commissioners of all 20 districts will also take lead and supervise both Shehri Jan Abhiyan and MTMP-2.0 and all the concerned will coordinate with them as they are an important part of administration in the district.