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| Development is my agenda number one: Azad | | CM inspects key health sector projects in Jammu City | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 6
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that development was his main agenda on which he was working single mindedly.
Talking with media persons during his visit to some key infrastructure projects coming up in health sector in the winter capital, Azad said that every political leader had his priorities and development of Jammu & Kashmir was his priority number one. He said while others might believe in only making speeches he personally believed in doing practical work.
The Chief Minister, in keeping with his regular monitoring of major public utility projects initiated by the government, today visited three major health sector related projects at SMGS Hospital, Government Medical College Hospital and Gandhi Nagar Hospital in the city. Minister for R&B, Gulchain Singh Charak and Managing Director, JKPCC, Dileep Thusoo accompanied the Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister expressed satisfaction over the pace of work on mega infrastructure projects initiated by his government in the three regions of the State and said the double and triple shift system of work had yielded very good results. He said the projects which would normally take 4 to 5 years to complete were being executed in 18 months under the new system.
Azad said that he had been personally monitoring infrastructure projects and keep track of each project. He cited the instance of the Haj House constructed in Srinagar and said it was the best success story of the double shift of work started by him in the State to complete construction projects in record time. The Haj House, he said, was completed in 14 months only and would have the state of the art facilities. The Haj House would be the first in the country to have immigration and custom clearance facilities, he added.
The Chief Minister first visited the under-construction 200 bed 4-storey additional paediatric block of the SMGS Hospital coming up at an estimated cost of Rs. 16.24 crore. The construction of the mega project would be completed by May 2008 and cope with the rush of paediatric patients. He discussed the details of the project with concerned engineers and instructed them to start interior finishing and land development concurrently with the construction work. He also told them to landscape the courtyard of the hospital.
Azad also visited the upcoming additional emergency block of Government Medical College Hospital, work on which was started in June this year. The 4-storey block would be completed in a record period of 11 months in May 2008. The additional emergency block coming up at a cost of Rs. 7.88 crores would comprise 8 wards, 4 operation theatres, one recovery room, one intensive care unit, 25 examination cubicles and other facilities including stretcher lift. |
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