After the unprecedented success of the Public Outreach Programmes, Phase I and II, the Centre Dispensation is all set to launch the phase 3 of the interactive programme very soon for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Although the exact schedule for the same has not been finalized yet and will be made public very soon, but according to the sources like the previous phase, this time also a number of senior cabinet ministers and other leaders including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and others totaling to approximate 70, will visit various parts of the Union Territory in a phased manner. It has been informed that these ministers will conduct interactions and public Darbars in every district of the Union territory besides reviewing the ongoing projects. As per the details, during this outreach programme starting from May 26, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, Waterways and AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal will visit Jammu district on May 31 while Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra will visit Anantnag on May 26. Further, the Union Minister of state in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh will visit Budgam on May 30. This time, the Government has specially formulated the schedule regarding visits of ministers as the ministers will visit places only on Monday to Friday while there will be no visit on Saturday and Sunday, just to ease pressure on UT administration. Besides holding interactions with people to listen to their grievances and taking stock of several ongoing projects and Central Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), this time the minister will also review the progress of works done as per their recommendations and suggestions made during the earlier two phases of the programme and afterwards submit the detailed reports to PMO and MHA. Pertinent to mention here that the first phase of outreach programme was held in 2020 followed by its second edition in 2021, both of which proved out to be a great success. It is expected that like its previous phases, this outreach programme would also emerge as a great success and shall go a long way in mitigating the sufferings of masses to a great extent.
