In a bid to give impetus to development scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, the Governor’s Administration has set an ambitious target to complete 1717 languishing projects by the end of this year.
An order issued by the Finance department has asked all theadministrative secretaries to give monthly progress report of the work done onlanguishing projects taken up for completion under Jammu and KashmirInfrastructure Development Corporation (JKIDFC) funding.
According to the details of 1717 languishing projects to becompleted by the end of this year, major share is of Public Health Engineeringand Irrigation and Flood Control department having 700 languishing projectsfollowed by Public Works (R&B) Department 300 and Power Development Department168.
A total of 111 projects of School Education department, 103of Health and Medical Education department, 79 of Industries and Commerce, 73of Rural Development Department, 65 of Youth Services and Sports and 62projects of Ladakh Affairs Department are also in the list of 1717 projects tobe completed by the end of 2019.
A senior Finance Department official informed that PrincipalSecretary Finance last month chaired a meeting of Administrative Secretaries.They were asked to ensure the completion of the languishing projects by end ofthis year.
“Governor Malik has time and again reiterated that delay incompletion of projects is hurting the development prospects of the state and hehas directed Chief Secretary to ensure that there should be no laxity incompletion of these projects,” he said.
Minutes of the meeting chaired by the Principal Secretary toGovernment, Finance Department read: “…All the Administrative Secretaries havebeen asked to expedite timely furnishing of payment requests to JKIFDC Ltd, inorder to complete the approved projects in a specified timeframe. He has askedall the Administrative Secretaries to express their difficulties in furnishingpayment request to the JKIDFC Ltd and time frame for completion of languishingprojects by each department.”
These 1717 languishing projects will be completed underlanguishing scheme funded by the Jammu and Kashmir Infrastructure Finance.The State Administrative Council (SAC)in order to complete the languishing projects has established JKIDFC to raiseloan of Rs 8000 crore.
A tentative assessment by the planning, development andmonitoring department indicated that incomplete projects worth over Rs 10000crore were at various stages and that over Rs 6000 crore would be required tocomplete all of them in one go.
The Planning department has further analyzed that sixdepartments namely PW(R&B), PHE/I&FC, School Education, HigherEducation, Youth Services and Sports, Health and Medical Education and Tourismtaken together accounted for nearly two thirds of the total unfunded burden.The projects in these six departments alone account for nearly Rs 4000 crore.