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Other Government Offices
PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT
This department is represented by the District Public Relations Officer who is assisted by about 70 employees including a District Publicity Organiser, Two field Publicity Assistants , An Information Centre Assistant, A Drama unit, A video Unit plus Bhajan Parties and Ministrial staff etc. There are two Assistant Public Relations Officers at Sub-Divisional Headquarters at Narwana and Safidon working under him. District Public Relations Officer is also incharge of Community Viewing Scheme under which TV sets are provided to Panchayat and schools. He maintains information Centre. The Administrative Control of this office is with the Director, Public Relations Haryana, Chandigarh. The District Public Relations Officer maintains constant liaison with the press and the public in general for putting across the government point of view. He organizes a publicity drive through meetings, cinema shows, drama performances and personal contacts. The object is to inform and educate the people about various programmes and policies formulated by the government. He also keeps the government informed of public reactions to its plans and policies and conveys public grievances to the district and state authorities. The department also provides the Public Address System for the official functions and charge fee for the same form the concerned functions organizers except Government departments. These services are declared commercial by the State Government to earn revenue. COOPERATIVE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES IN SUB-DIVISION, JIND. Jind Distt. is represented by 3 Assistant
Registrar, Cooperative Societies Headquarter at Jind,Safidon and Narwana.
Assistant Registrar, Coop. Societies, and Jind represent Jind Sub-Division
with 5 Inspectors, Coop. Societies, Headquarter at Jind- I, II, III, Julana
and Alewa. The Deputy Registrar, Cooperative Societies who’s headquartering
is at Rohtak is the controlling officer and have overall administrative
control have the Coop. Societies as well as sub-offices. The
Assistant Registrar. Coop. Societies, Jind is the registration authority of
Coop. Societies and to watch over and supervise their function. The
Inspectors are working under the control of Asstt, Registrar, and Coop.
Societies and are helping for smooth working of the Coop. Societies. The
Asstt. Registrar, Coop. Societies is responsible for the healthy growth and
development of the Cooperative Movement in his jurisdiction. The Cooperative
Movement has grown over years and earns a number of activities like
Agriculture Industries, Marketing, Consumer Stores, Labour &
Construction, House Building, Poultry, Transport Societies and Banking. The
department arranges credit requirements, Agriculture, Marketing, Consumer
goods and other needs of Societies.
The details of societies functioning in the Sub-Division, Jind are as
under:-
FOOD & SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT
This department is represented by the District Food & Supplies
Controller, who is assisted by one Distt. Food & Supplies Officer, 4
Assistant Food & Supplies Officers, 17 Inspectors, Food & Supplies
and 18 Sub Inspectors Food Supplies, One Head Analyst and Three Junior
Analysts and One weight & Measurement Inspector. He functions under the
administrative control of the Director Food & Supplies Haryana. He is responsible
for procurement of Food –grains (wheat) and its storage, taking of levy rice
from rice millers, preparation of ration cards and distribution of food
grains and Essential Commodities like levy sugar, wheat/atta & k.oil etc.
These activities are regulated through various control/licensing orders
issued by Food & Supplies Department mainly under Essential Commodities
Act (7.10.55). Besides above, the availability of LPG Diesel, petrol &
Bricks is ensured. In
1999 there were 401 fair price shops (89 Urban 312 Rural) in the Distt. The
fair price shops distribute levy sugar; wheat atta and K-oil to consumers
against ration cards prepared by the staff at the rates fixed by the Govt. There
are APL New ration cards 2,23,919 BPL
ration cards 37739 . In
2000-2001 the total arrival of wheat was 5,38,502 MT. Out of which 5,34,349
wheat was purchased by the Govt. agencies. Food Department purchased 1,54,482
MT wheat. In
the year 1999-2000 there was total arrival of paddy 1,86,267 MT. Out of which
procuring agencies purchased 4176 MT paddy. 14579 MT. Levy rice was taken
from the millers. DISTRICT SPORTS OFFICE The
Government set up a sports Office at Jind in 1969, headed by the District
Sports Officer. He is assisted by 28 coaches (hockey, wrestling and
volley-ball). The
government built a Nehru Stadium where coaching in Hockey, wrestling, and
volley-ball is imported to the young boys and girls. Coaching camps are held
from time to time for the selection of teams of the district. Talented young
players are sent in the state level
coaching camp for further specialized training. The
Sports Department gives financial assistance to various association and
institutions for the promotion of sports. Coaching centers are being
established separately for men and women for training in various games. To
promote the sports activties in rural areas, youth clubs have been formed at
various places in the district. DISTRICT LIBRARIES In 1999-2000 the following five libraries are
functioning in the District :- District Library Jind :- It was established in 1970. It contains 29044
books(in 1999-2000). There is a reading hall attached to library. Municipal library, Jind :- It is
housed in the meeting hall of the municipality. It has 6010 books. Krishi Gyan Kendra Library, Jind :- The Krishi Gyan Kendra Has a small library which is open
to farmers and field staff.
Municipal library, Narwana
:- It is located in the
municipal building. It contains 6887 books. A reading hall is attached to the
library. Municipal Library Julana
:- It
is located in the Municipal building. A reading hall is also attached to it.
It contains 5840 books and subscribes to 8 periodicals and newspapers. DISTRICT COUNCIL FOR CHILD WELFARE The District Council for child welfare,
Jind was established on April 1,1971. It is branch of the Haryana State
Council for Child welfare, Chandigarh.
Ball Bhawan , Jind Its main objectives are to promote the
welfare of the children upto the age of six years and to educate the public
in child welfare work. It encourages children through competition in story
writing, art, and sports and celebrates the Children’s Day. The main sources of the income of the Council are
subscriptions, donations and grants from Haryana State Council for Child
Welfare, Chandigarh. The figures of income and expenditure of the council
during 1977-78 to 1998-99 are as under: -
PUBLIC HEALTH The
Public Health Department is represented by one circle, at Jind, under the
control of Superintending Engineer, PWD Public Health Circle, Jind. The Jind
circle has three Public Health Divisions under its jurisdiction stationed at
Jind, Narwana and Kaithal, which have
been functioning since 3.4.70, 1.2.85 and 10.8.89 respectively. These divisions are manned by respective
Executive Engineers. The Public
Health Divisions, Jind is further divided in four Sub Divisions, out of which
2 No. are located at Jind , one No. at Julana and the 4th at Safidon under
the control of a Sub-Divisional Engineers each. Similarly Public Health of a
Sub-Divisional Engineers each. Similarly Public Health Division, Narwana has
three sub divisions, two at Narwana and one at uchana, under the charge of
respective Sub-Divisional Engineers. Public
Health Division, Kaithal has 5 sub Divisions under its charge with head
quarters of 3 Sub-Divisions at Kaithal, one at Kalayat and one at Pundri,
under the charge of Sub-Divisional Engineer each. The overall
control at State level of Public Health Deptt. Is vested with the
Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana, PWD Public Health Branch, Chandigarh. The
department is responsible for execution and maintenance of Public Health
works relating to water supply, sewerage, drainage and sanitation in rural
and urban areas . In Jind District, all the villages have been provided with
piped water supply. IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT, DISTRICT JIND
Y.W.S. Circle Jind & Narwana tehsil comes under the Bhakra
system under the administrative control of S.E./BWS Kaithal. In Y.W.S.
Circle, Jind there are two Nos division namely Jind water Services Division,
Jind under the charge of Executive Engineer & under this division there
are 3 Nos. Sub Divisions namely Jind/Julana/Pillukhera. Under this division
there are 13 drain with a length of 67.77 KM & 40. Canals having a length
is 64343 Hectors. Out of this the canal water was provided to 38463 Hect. in
Kharif & 37910 Hect. in Rabi. SAFIDON W.S. DIVISION, SAFIDON
In
this division there are 3
sub-division namely Anta, Safidon & Rojla. This division looks
after the 19 drains having a length of 90 KM & 14 canals having a length
of 122 KM. The total area under irrigation is 32266 Hect out of this the
total canal water supplied in Kharif is 14420 Hect & 12437 Hect. for
Rabi. NARWANA BWS
DIVISION, NARWANA
In
this division there are 3 sub
division namely Narwana, Sudkan, Dhamtan sub-division. In this division there
are 49 canals with a length of 507 KM & 17 drains with a length of 75 KM.
The total area in irrigation is 100069 Hect. Out of which total area irrigated is 82783 hect. in
both the crops. JIND WATER SERVICES MECH. DIVISION, JIND:
This divisions looks after the work of
maintenance & repairing of pumps for flood operation. In this division
there is one SDO at Jind. There are 22 pump houses site with 57 vertical
pumps having a capacity of 479 Cs. Besides this, there are 69 diesel pumping
sets having a capacity of 138 Cs & 72 electric pumps having a capacity of
198 Cs. The maintenance &
reparing is a responsibility of this division. CONSTRUCTION DIVISION NO. 26, JIND
This
division is under the administrative control of S.E. Construction Circle,
Panipat. In this division there are 5 Nos. SDO. They mainly look after work
of construction & rehabilitation of canals under world Bank Project. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT At the
district headquarters, a Deputy Director, Agriculture, who is assisted by
Agriculture Officers and at the sub-division level by Sub-Divisional
Agricultural Officers, controls the department. District
Jind has been divided into nine circles. Circle Agriculture Officer
supervises and is assisted by Agriculture Development Officer. Training and
visit system is in the progress in department since 1974. One Agriculture
Development officer is appointed on an average 800 affective operating farm
families. Circle Agriculture Officer is closely and affectively guiding
usually 8 Agriculture Development officers. The each circle of Agriculture
Development officer is divided into 8 groups. Each group is visited by A.D.O.
on one of the 8 days assigned in each fortnight to regular, fixed visits. The Agriculture
Department guides the farmers in the application of latest agricultural
techniques which include intensive method of cultivation for higher
production, new cropping patterns, preparation of crop plans, control of
various pests and diseases affecting agricultural crops, use of fertilizers
and improved seeds and laying out demonstration plots to show the cultivators
the superiority of the strains and agronomic practices. The Agriculture
Inspectors impart training and education to the farmers in their respective
areas on matters relating to improved techniques and better farm management. ANIMAL HUSBANDARY Animal
Husbandry in the district is looked after by a Deputy Director. He is
assisted by a team of three
sub-divisional officers (Animal Husbandry), one semen bank officer, forty
seven veterinary surgeons and two hundred
seven veterinary live stock development-assistants (V.L.D.A) (FISH FARMERS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY & FISHERIES DEPTT.) The office of the Fisheries development officer
was established in the year 1972 to develop fish farming and the Government
has established Fish Farmers Development Agency in the year 1990. The department also imparts 15 days training to
the persons, who wish to start fish farming. During the training, farmers get
Rest. 25/- per day as stipend by the department and actual expenses from his
destination for joining the training. The F.F.D.A. has trained sixty persons
in year 1999-2000 for fish culture. The department also proposes to establish
one seed farm in the district to meet the increasing demand of the seed. Last
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