Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha has termed the Back to Village Programme as historic and assured that the Administration is committed to give transparent and people-centric governance in the Union Territory.<br />'' <br />''He was addressing a press conference at Raj Bhawan's Auditorium in Srinagar on Monday.<br />'' <br />''The Lt. Governor said that in June 2019, the J&K Government embarked on the Back to Village Programme, a unique and ambitious exercise for enabling government at the doorsteps of people.<br />'' <br />''He told the media persons that this exercise involved the visit of over 4,000 Gazetted Officers of J&K to each and every Panchayat and spending two days and a night there.<br />'' <br />''It was also an opportunity to support and strengthen the newly constituted Panchayats.<br />'' <br />''Mr Sinha observed that the programme was a big success as there was a free and frank discussion on issues, problems and complaints.<br />'' <br />''People participated enthusiastically and it was almost a festive atmosphere, he recalled the flagship programme's two earlier phases. <br />'' <br />''Giving the background of the second phase of B2V, the Lt. Governor said that encouraged by the success of the programme, the government organized the B2V-2 programme in November 2019.<br />'' <br />''On the occasion, the focus was on ensuring that funds and functions devolved to the Panchayats were used without any bottlenecks and that beneficiary oriented schemes actually reached to the last person.<br />'' <br />''The Lt. Governor said that the 3rd version of the programme . has been planned from 2nd to 12th October and it shall be far more advanced, action packed and ambitious than its predecessors.<br />'' <br />''It will be an action programme in order to build on and resolve the issues raised earlier.<br />'' <br />''The Lt. Governor further said the actual programme shall be preceded by a three week long Jan Abhiyan (Awami Muhim) phase.<br />'' <br />''Enumerating the salient features of the pre-B2V-3 programme, Mr  Sinha said that during the Jan Sunwai Abhiyan (Awami Sunwai Muhim) phase, a Block Diwas (Youm-e-Block) shall be organized in every block/sub division headquarter on every Wednesday of a week when all departmental functionaries shall be available at a notified place with all supporting staff and equipment to ensure immediate on the spot disposal of applications and redressal of grievances.<br />'' <br />''The Lt. Governor further stressed on to address public grievances religiously and visit all subdivisions on rotational basis by DCs, SPs and designated Addional Deputy Commissioners and Additional Superintendents of Police for larger reach of the Jan Abhiyan.<br />'' <br />''He informed that the government has also launched the JKIGRAMS- Jammu and Kashmir Integrated Grievance Redress and Monitoring System to completely revamp, strengthen and decentralize the existing Grievance mechanism.<br />'' <br />''Informing about the Adhikar Abhiyan(Muhim Barai-e-Haqooq), the Lt. Governor said, it focuses on service delivery and 100 per cent saturation approach towards individual beneficiary oriented schemes and issuance of important certificates such as Domicile, SC, ST, ALC  certificates, Pensions, scholarships.<br />'' <br />''Aadhar cards, KCC, Gold Cards, JK health scheme cards, MGNREGA wage payments, PMAY sanctions and 1st installments, PM KISAN, Labour cards, PM Matrutva Vandana Yojana, Construction Workers' Welfare Board benefits, Scholarship applications for students and other important beneficiary oriented schemes, revenue services, documents issuance which the DCs may consider appropriate.<br />''   <br />''Mr Sinha elucidated that the 21-day action packed Jan Abhiyan will culminate into a 10-day B2V-3 programme where the experiences and achievements of the preceding weeks will be collated.<br />'' <br />''As in B2V1 and B2V2, over 4,200 officers will visit each and every Panchayat but this time they will assess the action taken on B2V-1 and B2V-2 issues and progress during the Awami Muhim or Jan Abhiyan.<br />