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| Dismal performance of Agriculture department Kashmir | | One year after expiry of deadline, Rs 1.18 Cr projects far from completion | | Bijay Charak
Jammu, Mar 2 : On one hand the state government is boasting to enhance agriculture production in food-grain starved state but on the other it has failed to complete two projects under Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana, after one year since expiry of deadline.
Sources informed Early Times that under centrally sponsored scheme RKVY, Union government in the financial year 2011-12 had sanctioned two projects to the cost of Rs. 1.18 Crores for Kashmir division. "A project to the tune of Rs. 18 Lakhs was sanctioned for providing soil testing facilities to farmers at their door-step through mobile soil testing vans in the mid of year while another project with estimated cost of Rs. 1 Crore was the construction of new soil testing laboratories in the district of Shopian and Ganderbal", sources said, adding that the first project, costing Rs. 18 Lakhs was abandoned by the department in the year 2011-12.
Moreover, sources said that the construction work of new soil testing laboratories in district Shopian and Ganderbal to the tune of Rs. 1 Crore was started in 2011-12 and the deadline for completion of project was year 2012-13, but even the second financial year 2013-14 was almost completed and project was far from completion.
Sources informed that despite availability of huge funding the Agriculture department Kashmir was able to construct only two unfurnished structures at Shopian and Ganderbal. "Even if the work will go on with the same pace, it will not completed in coming two years", an official seeking anonymity said, adding that if the department had taken so much time to construct the structures, when would the farmers get benefit of labouratory.
While castigating the Agriculture department, an official said that already state was reeling under huge scarcity of food grains and was totally dependent on other states. "The state government especially the Agriculture Minister Gulam Hassan Mir gave impressive speeches and claimed to make state independent on account of food grain demands, but ground reality exposed their tall claims", he said, adding that if same would be the attitude of concerned departments, state would never become independent on account of food grains requirements. |
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