Jammu & Kashmir government shall undertake an exercise to evaluate the impact of developmental projects taken up under different programmes in the state.
An official told Greater Kashmir that Finance department hasdecided to go for “quick impact analysis” of the ongoing and the completedprojects in the State.
“The main objective of the exercise is to assess whetherbenefits of these projects are reaching to the target groups. We will also seewhat corrections are needed for giving benefits of these projects to masses,”he said.
To begin with, officials of Finance department wouldevaluate impact of the projects being taken up in different departments likeRoads & Building, Public Health Engineering, Public Health Engineering,etc.
“We have identified projects of 10 departments for quickimpact analysis and not less than five projects of each of them would beassessed. Our teams will undertake field visits to evaluate their impact,” theofficial said, adding that exercise was part of monitoring developmentalinitiatives in the state.
The exercise has been taken up at a time when state isexecuting projects under the Prime Minister’s Development Package and WorldBank –financed JehlumTawi Flood Recoveryproject.
From time to time, questions have been raised from differentquarters over utility and efficacy of several projects taken up in the stateunder central or state funding.
In latest such instance, the government has come undercriticism over “ill designing” of grade separator at TRC junction, which wasthrown open for traffic movement few days ago.
Earlier this week, the Governor also directed administrativesecretaries undertake field visits on weekly basis to review developmentalworks and important centrally and state sponsored schemes.