‘My Town My Pride’ Programme – Jammu and Kashmir

Current Context: Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir announced a programme called as ‘My Town My Pride’.

The programme commenced from 19th Oct 2020 in the UT of J&K.
The programme is basically an urban connect programme which aims to provide governance facilities at the doorsteps in urban areas of J&K.
The programme follows the similar pattern of initial ‘Back to Village’ programme conducted in J&K.
Objectives of ‘My Town My Pride’ Programme: (a)To strengthen grassroots democracy (b) Public outreach in towns (c) To offer service delivery at doorsteps
‘My Town My Pride’ Programme will look after on-the-spot addressing of grievances redressals, offer immediate service delivery to people and offer ground speedy execution of people centric schemes and projects.
The programme also aims to offer time-bound delivery of documents like caste certificates, revenue and income certificate, old-age and physically handicapped pension registration, ration card updation, Aadhaar card enrollments etc at doorsteps. It will ensure immediate delivery of benefits like government schemes like pensions, scholarships, PMAY, health golden cards, Ladli Beti etc.
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Question:

Q.1 Which state/UT launched ‘My Town My Pride’ Programme?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Delhi
c. Jammu and Kashmir
d. Uttarakhand