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| After years of wait, major repair, renovation drive underway in Jammu migrant camps | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 27: In a move to address the long-pending demand of displaced Kashmiri Pandit families, the government has launched an extensive repair and renovation programme across migrant camps in Jammu, covering more than 200 building blocks and around 5,000 flats, besides community halls and other common facilities.
An official said on Sunday that the comprehensive works mark the first repair and renovation initiative of such magnitude in the migrant camps, many of which, including Jagti and other locations in Jammu, were established primarily between 2004 and 2011 under the Prime Minister’s Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Programme.
Migrant families residing in these camps had for long been seeking comprehensive repairs, renovation and improvement of basic infrastructure as the buildings and common facilities aged and required substantial intervention.
Relief and Rehabilitation (Migrants), J&K, Arvind Karwani, who inspected the ongoing developmental works in Jagti and Nagrota migrant camps along with a team of senior officers, emphasised upon conducting a structural audit of all buildings and instructed to ensure good quality of works in due consultation with the public and concerned camp commandants.
Karwani said the Public Works Department (Roads and Buildings) has initiated major repair and renovation works across migrant camps in Jammu, covering more than 200 building blocks, around 5,000 flats, community halls and other common facilities.
Besides the department has formulated a comprehensive project for development of internal roads and lanes, development of parks and face lifting of all migrant schools, health dispensaries and Sub-District Hospital Jagti, he said.
The government has recently accorded administrative approval involving financial implications of Rs 82.45 crore for undertaking these works.
During the visit, the relief and rehabilitation commissioner reviewed the status of basic amenities like safe drinking water, power supply and sanitation in the camps and instructed the officers of the Jal Shakti Department to take all requisite measures to ensure uninterrupted water supply in the camps and press adequate water tanker supply in the operation to supplement the water shortage as and when required. |
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