DC Shopian briefs media on DAGJUA

Tribal festival to be held at Keller, people appealed to participate

NOVEMBER, SHOPIAN 16: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shopian, Mohammad Shahid Saleem Dar today briefed the media on Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyaan (DAJGUA), re-christened scheme for tribal welfare and development.

The DC briefed the media about the DAJGUA, aimed to target saturation of schemes and development outcomes across 25 interventions for tribal development and welfare.

He DC talked about initiatives being taken for hostel upgradation, tribal entrepreneurship, establishment of Eklavya Model Residential School and other tribal welfare issues. He specially mentioned new initiatives to be taken in 13 tribal dominated village of the district.

He also asked the media to participate tomorrow for generating extensive IEC campaigns in the district so that more and more people are able to register for the scheme.

The DC vociferously appealed people to come forward and register for these schemes at Camps being conducted in the tribal villages.

The campaign shall continue till November 26 of this month where departments will be targeting population for scheme saturation and tribal development.

The press briefing was coordinated by the Department of Information and Public Relations, Shopian and was attended by numerous media persons belonging to national and local media organisations. DIO Shopian, Showkat Hussain Ganie was also present on the occasion.