Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 23: Minister for R&B Abdul Majid Wani today said that Union Government has approved revision of its core network to include as many as 1100 left out unconnected habitations with population of 250 persons and above in Jammu and Kashmir under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY).
“This is highly significant for our State”, Wani said, adding that he had recently taken up the matter with Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh and Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and conveyed to them the urgency and immediate need for revision and extending the scheme to cover left out habitations especially in hilly areas of the State.
“We appreciate the support the Union Government is providing to the Coalition Government led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in its endeavor to improve the living standard of the people”, he said maintaining that with this approval vision for providing all weather road connectivity to both rural and remote inaccessible hilly areas will receive a significant boost.
“We are also approaching and keeping constant touch with the Union Ministry of Rural Development for its approval for covering unconnected habitations with population of 100 persons and above in Jammu and Kashmir and we are hopeful of receiving the nod in this regard as well”, Wani informed.
Meanwhile, The Minister said that State Government has also conveyed approval to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for conducting further Geo-Technical investigations along the Batote-Doda road and prefeasibility study for construction of proposed Chenani-Sudhmahadev-Goha-Khellani alternate road to Doda district.
“The alignment will provide an alternate highway, open up the area for tourists and uplift the socio-economic condition of residents”, Wani said adding that sizeable population residing all along the alternate alignment will get hugely benefitted from the project.
Elaborating further the Minister said that tunnels along the route have also been proposed to make it all weather alternate highway connecting and benefitting residents of Udhampur, Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar.
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