J&K Tepid To Outreach Bid

The Jammu and Kashmir government’s first major public outreach since the scrapping of the erstwhile state’s special status received a lukewarm response on Monday, but officials confessed themselves relieved that there was no violence.

Lt Governor G.C. Murmu’s administration launched the second phase of the Back to Village (B2V2) program, which is aimed at providing “governance at the doorsteps of the rural populace and to enlist community participation”. The outreach will last till Saturday. The first phase of the program had been launched on June 20, weeks before the constitutional changes were announced and a clampdown imposed on August 5.

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