 Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 19: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today released the Coffee Table Book of Jammu & Kashmir Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (JKIDFC), a compilation of 500 completed projects of public importance funded by the Corporation during Financial year 2019-20, which were languishing earlier due to financial and other execution bottlenecks. While the first milestone of completing 200 Projects was achieved in February, the Corporation achieved another milestone of 500 projects before March 2020.
BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department; Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education Department; Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary to the Government, Home Department; Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor; Dheeraj Gupta, Principal Secretary to the Government, Housing and Urban Development Department; Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary to the Government, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department; Dr. Pawan Kotwal, Principal Secretary to the Government, Revenue Department; Ajeet Kumar Sahu, Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Jal Shakti Department, besides other Administrative Secretaries and senior officers participated, in person and through video conferencing.
The Lt Governor remarked that JKIDFC has been a vital driver in the Jammu & Kashmir’s Developmental Agenda and appreciated the Corporation for carving out assets for the public good out of languishing unfunded projects, in a short span of time by plugging the financial and operational lacunae in the overall project implementation structure in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
The Lt Governor asked all the stakeholders of the Corporation to put in concerted efforts to create benchmarks in speedy execution of projects and ensure that the benefit of projects reaches the people without much delay. He also called for working towards enhancing transparency and accountability, besides addressing infrastructure bottlenecks of Jammu & Kashmir. |
