Jammu, Jan. 13 -- Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, today emphasised the need for strengthening of traditional and vital village institutions of Numberdar and Chowkidar throughout J&K, and directed the authorities to ensure that all services should be offered in online mode from 15th of this month.

In a meeting with Revenue authorities, attended by Commissioner Secretary, Revenue; Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, and other concerned officers, Dr Mehta maintained that the positions of Numberdar and Chowkidar are very significant in terms of better coordination at the grassroots level and can't be kept vacant at the peril of common masses. He termed them as a link between the people and administration therefore the instr...