“This would increase the working orbit of the self-help-groups and encourage them to take higher responsibility of undertaking bigger projects”, he said and stressed on promotion of self-help-groups culture in the State.
Chairing a high level meeting to review the implementation of guidelines for allotting works to the self-help-groups operating in engineering and rural development departments, the Chief Minister asked for fresh registration of the groups and their categorization according to the capacity to work.
By directing fresh registration for self-help-groups, the Chief Minister has opened new avenues of jobs and independent livelihood earning opportunities to the unemployed engineers in the State, who can organize themselves into groups and get the benefits of the scheme.
“More capacity building would earn further enhancement to the allotment of works limit”, Omar said and directed for encouraging and providing every facility and help to the engineers intending to organize themselves in self-help-groups.
Today’s meeting was to analyze and address the issues put forth by various self-help-groups during their interaction with the Chief Minister in recently held ‘Awami Mulaqat’.
The meeting was attended by the Minister for Higher Education and Labour, Abdul Gani Malik, Minister of State for R&B, Javed Ahmad Dar, Political Advisor to the Chief Minister, Devender Singh Rana, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, B. B. Vyas, Commissioner Secretary PDD, Basharat Ahmad Dhar, Commissioner Secretary PHE, Mehboob Iqbal and various other senior officers.
Chief Minister directed the concerned departments to implement the guidelines for allotting works to the self-help-groups in letter and spirit. And help the engineering graduates to earn their independent livelihood besides rendering service for quality implementation of development schemes.
“I would like to see the visible growth of self-help-groups and attractive incentives for them to nurture and develop in the coming years”, he asserted.
Omar also directed for creating one Nodal Officer in each concerned department to look into the affairs of self-help-groups and monitoring the implementation of guidelines properly. “In fact the Commissioner Secretaries of these departments should monitor the mechanism periodically and the Minister concerned by-yearly”, he told the meeting.
The meeting was informed that presently 285 self-help-groups are functioning in the State with a membership of 1442 engineers. The works worth Rs 34.33 crore have been allotted to them during last year.
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