Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 31: Maintaining that the Government has already put in place a comprehensive plan for ensuring sustained development of the Srinagar city, the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that certain parties are trying to create misgivings in the minds of common people for their own ulterior motives, in which they will not succeed.
The Minister was addressing a public gathering after laying the foundation stones of Community Centre, being constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.20 crore at Sheeshigari Mohalla and Wazoo Khana with the cost of Rs.1.64 crore at Rayaztang, Miskeenbagh in Khanyar old city, Srinagar. The Projects would be constructed by R& B Department.
Additional District Development Commissioner, Srinagar, Nazim Zia Khan, Chief Engineer, R&B, Kashmir, Mushtaq Ahmed Lone and senior officers of various departments and district administration were present on the occasion.
Referring to the various developmental initiatives undertaken by the Government, the Minister said several sectors including the pivotal ones like health have been properly augmented by ensuring infrastructural expansion and providing state-of-art medicare facilities to the people has been done. He said that the road connectivity has also been improved by taking up several projects like four-laning of the National Highway and in old city the work on Srinagar, Syed Merak Shah and KZP has also been accelerated.
Mr. Sagar while referring to the several welfare schemes launched for the youth of the State said that the programmes like Himmayat, Uddan would go a long way in solving the unemployment problem by providing the much needed employment opportunities to them. He said that Entrepreneurial Development Institute (EDI) has also been established which provides the unemployed youth with the financial assistance to set up their units by which they can contribute their bit in socio-economic development of their areas and also provide avenues to the young prospective entrepreneurs.
The Minister while referring to the medium of dialogue for solving various complex issues said that it is recorded history that several problems globally have been solved only through dialogues and reconciliation, adding that both India and Pakistan should come forward and solve all their issues through this bilaterally. He said that the people preaching cult of violence should also understand this and come forward to project their view point for solving all the issues.
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