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| 8 months on, State yet to get Rs 710 Cr financial assistance | | Pending Land compensation cases under PMGSY | | Arun Singh
JAMMU, Jan 7: Giving a damn to the State Government, New Delhi has not sanctioned the approved Rs 710 Crore, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to Jammu and Kashmir as a special one-time allowance as cost for land acquisition for completion of PMGSY programmes, even after the eight months since the announcement made by the Prime Minister himself during his visit in Jammu and Kashmir last year.
Sources told Early Times that the financial assistance of Rs 710 crore was approved to expedite the completion of PMGSY projects running across the state which had been come to halt due to pendency of various compensation cases in acquisition of land.
"This much ambitious scheme has fallen flat in Jammu and Kashmir due to the land acquisition problems which slowed down the progress as hundreds of compensation cases are still pending and awaiting to be cleared to make headways under the PMGSY but the delay in funds release the various projects had been adversely affected," said sources.
Sources said that although the current financial year 2013-14 is about to complete and just three months are left but till date State Government has yet to get approved one- time special assistance under PMGSY.
"Union Government has repeatedly reprimanded the State Government to improve its revenue base to meet bigger challenges on development front so that land acquisition cases may be compensated by the State Government itself though the PMGSY has no provision for land compensation in any State," they added.
The further said that out of 10,200 kilometers of the road length sanctioned by his Ministry under the PMGSY, work on 2,000 kilometers had been adversely affected because of non-acquisition of land.
Pertinently the PMGSY was launched in 2000 to provide all weather connectivity to unconnected habitations with a population of 500 persons and above under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in rural areas. |
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