25 projects completed, 4 more to be accomplished in ongoing fiscal
By: Ibni Maqbool
Srinagar: The Government of India and the administration of Jammu & Kashmir have made significant progress in implementation of the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP) for J&K.
Official documents in possession of The Precious Kashmir lay bare that out of 58 projects sanctioned under the mega development package for J&K, 25 have been completed/ substantially completed till date.
Of the completed projects, seven were executed by central agencies and 18 by the government of J&K.
The documents also reveal that four more projects are expected to be completed in the remaining period of the ongoing financial year, which will take the number of completed projects under the PMDP to 29.
Both the Centre and J&K are regularly reviewing progress made in implementation of the package.
It is worthwhile to mention that the mega development package was announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public rally at SK Park here on November 7, 2015.
The package comprised of 63 projects, of which 53 projects are in Jammu & Kashmir UT and 10 are in Ladakh UT.
However, the project of relocation of a transit camp in J&K was dropped from the PMDP on the advice of the Defence Ministry.
The Defence Ministry had pushed for delinking the project from the PMDP, saying it is funded exclusively out of the Army Budget.
