<span style="color: #222222;">In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Secretary Youth Services and Sports Sarmad Hafeez today reaffirmed that Sports Department is actively involved in third phase of pre-Back to Village programme of Jan Abhiyan so that different sporting activities would be conducted across all the Panchayats.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In his message on the formal launch of Jan Abhiyan of his department, Mr Sarmad stated that the third phase of Back to Village (B2V-3) is commencing from 2nd of October and will conclude on 12 th of October where all the gazetted and other officers are going to visit every Panchayat to listen to the people's issues and problems and resolve them on the spot.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Sarmad said that this time, prior to B2V-3 a 21-day Jan Abhiyan/Awami Muhim is being conducted where the Deputy Commissioners, Rural Development Department officers and officers of other departments are making people aware about social schemes and also take notice of the developmental work in every Panchayat. In this phase, there are initiatives like Jan Sunvayi, Unnat Gram and Adhikar Abhiyan where the visiting officers will identify local beneficiaries and other developmental issues for their resolution. He informed that YSS department is also holding myriad sporting activities at all Panchayat levels across J&K and during Jan Abhiyan several playgrounds in different Panchayats will be identified and the necessary work, if any, would be taken up.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Sarmad said that for this purpose, the government has released an amount of 20,000 rupees to each Panchayat for buying sporting equipment so that village youth would be able to participate in different sports activities. He said that he is hopeful that this programme would be successful as YSS Department is important part of this campaign is actively involved and all YSS employees will jointly work with Panchayats to make Jan Abhiyan a huge success.</span><br />''