Central govt is committed to rapid development of Jammu and Kashmir: Meghwal

Meghwal who is on his maiden two day tour of J&K’s south Kashmir district of Anantnag assured that the Government of India is committed to ensure rapid development in the Union Territory and all necessary support will be provided to achieve that.

The MoS held a detailed review of the implementation of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes with the officers in the district besides interacting with various beneficiaries of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, with first time voters and youth.

Meghwal directed the implementing agencies to spend minimum time in sanctioning and estimation to ensure timely execution of Prime Minister SVANidhi and timely disbursement of tranches to the vendors.

Presenting the achievements of the District in the previous fiscal and status of works during the present fiscal, Dr Basharat Qayoom, Deputy Commissioner Anantnag informed the MoS that the several important projects are being implemented in the district and are being executed with strict adherence to timeline.

The minister was apprised that more than 50 percent vendors have received the installments of credit tranche and the others will be covered in the coming month. The chair was apprised that for promoting self employment, more than 1300 cases have been sanctioned under PMEGP also.

The chair laid emphasis on coverage of farmers under KCC. He was informed that while 100 percent saturation has been achieved by the Agriculture department and beneficiaries are being covered by the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries department.

He informed the chair that work plans for the flagship scheme MGNREGA have been discussed and approved by the Gram Sabhas and estimation has been completed.

He said that several initiatives like SUKOON, PUKAAR, PMSVANidhi have been implemented in the district in a bid to bring marked improvement in public delivery of services. He said that special emphasis has been laid on employment generation through PMEGP, MUMKIN and several youth have set up units in the district and are not only earning their livelihood but are also generating jobs.

(With UNI inputs)