The National Level Monitors (NLM) who have been monitoring the implementation of different centrally sponsored public welfare schemes in Darrang district have urged upon the public to download ‘Apps’ in their smart phones and lodge complaints of their grievances with the help of these Apps directly to the PMO or the Central Government and witness the response to the complaints.
The appeal was made by S K Mahapatra , Deputy Director General (DDG), Foreign Trade, Government of India , one of the NLMs for the district of Darrang while addressing a farmers’ development workshop (Kisan Kalyan Karyashala) organized jointly by the District Agriculture Department, ATMA and the Paschim Mangaldai Develoment Block at Ambedkar Bhawan, Block Chowk, Mangaldai as a part of celebration of the Gram Swaraj Abhijan on Wednesday.
Explaining about the sea change that has taken place during the regime of present BJP-led government in the public grievances redressal mechanism, the NLM claimed that not a single complaint has been left unattended.
“We shift focus from the policy making to its effective execution in the grassroots level where we try to address each and every complaint received by us to the satisfaction of the complainants,” he stated.
Several other speakers including Asish Tripathy, NLM , Adhar Bhuyan, CEO, Darrang Zila Parishad , Nila Kanta Deka, District Agriculture Officer, Dr Pabitra Bordoloi , Chief Scientist, KVK, Darrang, Tapan Das, District Fishery Development Officer, Dr Khagen Sarma, District Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Officer, Nilima Debi, president, BJP, Darrang district unit etc also delivered their speech and discussed various income generating avenues including producing ornamental fish, value added products from scientific processing of dried fish, engagement in bee keeping, vermin compost and earth worm keeping among others in addition to normal agriculture to double the income of the farmers.
The workshop was attended by more than one hundred progressive farmers of the Bongalagarh Agriculture Subdivision under Darrang Agriculture Department.
Similar kind of workshops have also been organized on that day in all the five other development blocks of the district.