Kokrajhar: Guv Jagadish Mukhi Receives Job Card grievances

Assam Governor Jagadish Mukhi on Monday heard public grievances at a public durbar held in Kokrajhar Secretariat and asked administrative functionaries for their immediate redressal.

The Governor visited Kokrajhar for the second time after taking over BTC administration and heard the problems of people coming from different walks of life including representatives of social, cultural, religious, political, linguistic and student organizations. The governor also directed BTC administrator Rajesh Prasad to take steps for their immediate redressal.

The governor also took special initiatives like holding public durbar in BTAD areas to take fruits of governance to every resident.

The deputy commissioners of four BTAD districts have been ordered to hold the public durbar in their respective jurisdiction and take steps for solving the problem.

Speaking to media persons, Governor Mukhi said that he received several grievances regarding the misappropriation of the job cards issued under MGNREGA adding that he asked that administrator to designate the respective BDOs to take care of people's welfare so that the people living within the jurisdiction of VCDC should not suffer and that the VCDC should primarily looked after it.

He further pointed out that the job cards should remain in the hands of the beneficiaries as per rules and asked administrator to get hold of all the job cards from the VCDC functionaries and hand over the same to them within a week.

Further, four out of nine Municipal Boards whose term was over have been dissolved and their functions shall be looked after by the executive officers.

The Governor asked Kokrajhar deputy commissioner to prepare a list of all the migrant workers in the district and map their skill sets to employ them in different vocations.

He also asked the administrator to allot job cards to the migrant workers who have come back to different districts of BTAD areas post COVID-19 induced lockdown.