Principal Secretary Industries & Commerce Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary on Thursdy chaired a meeting to review the functioning of the department at Sanat-GharBemina here.
The meeting was attended by Director I&C, DirectorHandlooms, Director Geology and Mining, MDs of SICOP, SIDCO, Handloom, and JKMinerals and representatives of Jammu and Kashmir Industries. PrincipalSecretary was briefed about the functioning of the department and was briefedon the progress of various ongoing projects of the department.
On the occasion, Choudhary directed the officials to ensureproper upkeep of departmental assets and industrial estates. He also asked themto monitor the progress of languishing projects on a daily basis and pace upwork on them for their timely completion.
He also inspected various offices which are functioning atthe Sanat-Ghar.
Later, the Principal Secretary along with various officialsvisited various places to inspect the assets of the department and took thefirst-hand appraisal of the functioning of the manufacturing units where hedirected for maintenance of industrial estates and stressed on capacitybuilding of employees of the department through regular training programmes.
He visited Woolen Mills Bemina and reviewed the functioningof the unit and inspected the products being made there.
In Solina, the Principal Secretary visited various assetsincluding Solina Silk Factory, WoolenSpinning Plant and Poshish Showroom of J&K Handloom Development Corporationwhere he inspected the functioning of the units and also interacted with theworkers there. On his visit to Silk Factory RajBagh, Principal Secretarystressed on the need to promote the products being made at the factory at awider scale. He also called for the promotion of the products through social mediaand development of e-commerce platforms for marketing of local handicrafts.