Exposure tours provide first hand knowledge to IAS officers: Vohra

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra said that exposure tours of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers to different parts of the country provide them an opportunity for gaining first hand knowledge about success or failure of programmes.
Mr Vohra was talking to a group of IAS officers from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, currently on a four-day Exposure Tour to Jammu and Kashmir.
The Governor, while interacting with the group of IAS officers participating in the 109th Induction Training Programme at the Academy, observed that such visits provide an opportunity for gaining first hand impressions about development issues and reasons for success or failure of programmes in various parts of the country.
Such knowledge can help in drawing up more pragmatic strategies to speed up the developmental process, he added.
The Governor suggested to the IAS officers to interact with the local people and gain their own impressions about the development in the state.
He enquired from the 10-member group of the visiting IAS officers about the places they have had visited so far within the country and in Bangladesh.
They briefed the Governor that apart from Dhaka, so far they have visited Kolkata, Mumbai, Gujarat and Daman.
During their visit to the Valley, they are scheduled to visit Gulmarg, Pahalgam, Uri Hydel Project and, besides, visiting various places of tourist and historic interest in Srinagar.
The Group would also be interacting with the locals at Pahalgam.