Samoon reviews progress on dev activities in Bandipora

Principal Secretary, Transport, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department Asgar Hassan Samoon on Saturday chaired a meeting of officers to review development activities in Bandipora district.

Samoon, who is also in-charge Secretary district Bandipora,directed the officers of various departments including Tourism, Agriculture,Horticulture, Sericulture, Forest, Fisheries and others to explorepossibilities in the district that can provide more job avenues to the people.He said a large number of people earn livelihood from the Wullar lake and ithas a potential to further increase the job providing capacity if it fullybrought  on the tourism map.

   

He called for developing eco-friendly infrastructure so thatmore tourists are attracted to the place so that the locals living along thebanks are able to earn their livelihood. He urged the officers to come up withinnovative ideas to give flip to different agro-based sectors so that  more educated youth are attracted  forestablishing income generating units.

While review various sectors, he urged the officers to workin close coordination so that the bottlenecks that hinder implementation ofworks, are removed at earliest. Samoon reviewed the status of macademisation ofSrinagar-Bandipora road, Bandipora-Gurez-Tulail Road, up-gradation and wideningof Bandipora-Sopore road, status of under-construction District HospitalBandipora, Badampora-Bandipora Transmission Line and other vital projects ofpublic importance in the district.

The meeting discussed threadbare the issues that hinder thecompletion of these projects  anddirections were passed to remove the bottlenecks and expedite the work so thatprojects can be completed at earliest.

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