Rural Development Department, Jammu is the nodal Department for most of the development and welfare activities in the rural areas and plays a pivotal role in the overall development strategy of the UT.
Jammu Division comprises 10 Districts, 148 CD Blocks, and 2109 Panchayat Halqas. The Directorate is under the administrative Control of the Rural Development Department at the Secretariat Level which is headed by an officer of the rank of Commissioner/Secretary to Government. At the provincial level, the Directorate is headed by the Director who is a major head of the Department in terms of Jammu & Kashmir Book of Financial Powers. He exercises administrative and financial control over the whole province and is assisted by Joint Director (Administration), Superintending Engineer REW Kashmir, Deputy Director (Planning), District Panchayat Officer (Publicity), Block Development Officer (Headquarters) Accounts Officer, and other necessary staff to carry out the day to day working in the Directorate.

Rural Development Department, Kashmir is the nodal Department for most of the development and welfare activities in the rural areas and plays a pivotal role in the overall development strategy of the UT.
Kashmir Division comprises 10 Districts, 137 CD Blocks, and 2182 Panchayat Halqas. The Directorate is under the administrative Control of the Rural Development Department at the Secretariat Level which is headed by an officer of the rank of Commissioner/Secretary to Government. At the provincial level, the Directorate is headed by the Director who is a major head of the Department in terms of Jammu & Kashmir Book of Financial Powers. He exercises administrative and financial control over the whole province and is assisted by Joint Director (Administration), Superintending Engineer REW Kashmir, Deputy Director (Planning), District Panchayat Officer (Publicity), Block Development Officer (Headquarters) Accounts Officer, and other necessary staff to carry out the day to day working in the Directorate.

Directorate of Rural Sanitation, J&K was established in Oct 1989 under the administrative control of the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj to emphasize Rural sanitation to improve the quality of life of the rural people and to provide privacy to dignity to women under Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen).
The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2nd October 2014 by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, to achieve a clean India by 2nd October 2019, a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary.
The key objectives of SBM-G phase II are to sustain the ODF status of villages and to improve the level of cleanliness in rural areas through Solid and Liquid Waste Management activities. An ODF+ village is a village, that sustains its open defection-free (ODF) status, ensures SLWM, and is visually clean. UT of J&K has decided to implement all the components of this mission in a phased manner from the year 2020-21 to 2024-25. .