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RAJOURI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Hamid Choudhary on Friday said that Coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir was putting in its best efforts to bring the State back on rails of development for which prioritised works are being given special emphasis. Special thrust is being laid on development of tourist spots besides timely completion of civil works undertaken by Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) are going to give people world class infrastructure.
The PDP leader said Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s directives on scientific disposal of waste in two capital cities and at all tourist destinations by ERA will provide a green and clean environment that will ultimately attract more tourists. The sewerage lines in certain areas of Jammu as well as Srinagar are yet to be laid down and once the same work is completed Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) will become functional thereby ending age old practices of disposal of filth in most unhygienic manner.
These mega projects, Choudhary Hamid said were either abandoned, half-baked or going on at snail’s pace but the PDP-BJP Coalition Government has expedited works only to make Jammu and Kashmir a clean and green State. The recent directives of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to ERA officials for identifying more such projects is nothing but a futuristic planning and vision that’s going to bring in sea changes in the developmental scenario of State.
The ERA projects under Multi-Sector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation (MSPIR) and Urban Sector Development Investment Programme (USDIP) once completed will encourage recycling and reuse of garbage waste, scientific disposal of waste in capital cities, make tourist destinations clean and green and give people flyovers with eased out traffic congestions in both Jammu as well as Srinagar, Choudhay Hamid added.
This was because of the efforts of Chief Minister that work on Jahangir Chowk-Rambagh and Bikram Chowk-Presentation Convent School Flyovers in Srinagar and Jammu cities respectively have been expedited and now directions have also been issued to complete the projects within stipulated timeframe. The Coalition Government is also seized of the situation arising out of dilapidated roads and drainage system in the State for which a project to construct 133 km drainage network under USDIP is also in the pipeline.
Choudhary Hamid said that Coalition Government was very seriously pursing each and every project and intends to come up to people’s expectations.
The efforts which the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is putting in are going to generate desired results very soon for which people’s cooperation is needed, Choudhay Hamid asserted.