July 16, 2026 07:31 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'Why introduce a new language in Class 9?' Supreme Court questions Centre's policy | 'Save Sonam Wangchuk's life': Delhi High Court to Centre as hunger strike enters Day 19 | Atul Kulkarni observes one-day fast in support of Sonam Wangchuk, urges Centre to initiate dialogue | Argentina stun England with late rally to storm into FIFA World Cup 2026 final | 'He could die in two days': Delhi HC plea seeks force-feeding of Sonam Wangchuk as fast enters Day 18 | 'Tonight's defeat is hard to take': Emmanuel Macron reacts after France crash out of World Cup, congratulates Spain | Spain cruise past France to storm into FIFA World Cup 2026 final with clinical 2-0 victory | Taslima Nasrin announces Kolkata return after 20 years to attend literary event at Rabindra Sadan | 'We must not watch one of our greatest minds be sacrificed': Zeenat Aman backs Sonam Wangchuk, urges govt to open dialogue | 'I don't want Phunsukh Wangdu to die': '3 Idiots' star Omi Vaidya's emotional appeal for Sonam Wangchuk
Kashmir
Image: Divya Agrawal/Unsplash

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

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2022, at 05:00 am

Srinagar: Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday assured that the central government is committed to ensure rapid development in Jammu and Kashmir.

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)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.