Jammu, May 22: The State government today constituted a Special Task Force to find out the circumstances under which the record of 1975 cabinet decision – pertaining to the agreement between the state and the Centre for execution, energy-sharing and transfer of Salal Power Project on the Chenab to J&K–has gone missing and fix responsibility on the officers responsible for it.
  Official sources said that the STF has been constituted on the recommendation of a Cabinet Sub Committee, which was formed to study the ways and means to buy back the NHPC run power projects in the state.
  The Task Force will be headed by the Commissioner Secretary General Administrative Department and comprise of Additional Secretary PDD, Additional Secretary GAD and Additional Secretary in the Governor’s Secretariat as its members.
  The committee will “look into the circumstances leading to the misplacement of records pertaining to Cabinet Decision No 328 dated 21.06.1975 and also fix the responsibility for the lapse”.
  Official sources said that the state government has so far suffered loss to the tune of more than 2300 Crore due to the non-implementation of this cabinet decision – record of which has gone missing from the official records.
  It was on the basis of this decision that the state government entered into an agreement with NHPC for Salal Power Project. However, the record pertaining to the cabinet decision as well as the agreement was found to be missing.

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