JAMMU, Jan. 11 -- In a significant initiative aimed at deepening the democratic engagement and advancing the constitutional mandate of social justice, Minister for Jal Shakti, Forest, Ecology & Environment and Tribal Affairs, Javed Ahmed Rana, today held a day long mega public outreach programme with members of Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) at Panchayat Bhawan, Jammu.

The outreach programme was conceived as a rights-based participatory platform, enabling historically marginalised and socially disadvantaged communities to directly articulate their grievances, lived realities and developmental aspirations before the government.

Apart from several members of SC/ST and OBC communities, the ...