StemCell Therapy

New Delhi, Feb 20: The second batch of about 40 Union ministers is likely to visit Jammu and Kashmir in April to get first-hand information about various development schemes initiated thereby both the central government and the Union Territory administration, officials said on Thursday.

The PrimeMinisters Office (PMO) will decide the composition of the ministerialdelegation that will undertake the follow up of the first visit of 37 Unionministers, who had toured Jammu and Kashmir last month.

A secondbatch of about 40 Union ministers may undertake a visit to Jammu and Kashmir.Dates and composition of the team have not been fixed yet but it will be donesoon after the Budget session of Parliament, a government official said.

After the recess,the second part of the budget session will begin on March 2 and it will end onApril 3.

The PMO willfinalise the list of the ministers and each minister will be assigned aparticular district and focus will be on the Kashmir Valley, the official said.

Some of theministers of the first batch may also be part of the second batch, he said.

The ministerswill assess the development initiatives undertaken by the central government aswell as the UT administration on the ground and they will not talk aboutpolitical issues, the official said.

By interactingwith the locals, they will try to get first-hand information about the roads,healthcare facilities, power situation, functioning of academic institutionsetc. in the UT, he added.

As many as 37central ministers had visited Jammu and Kashmir last month following a directiveof Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wanted an honest assessment of the variouswelfare schemes being implemented there.

Among those whohad visited Jammu and Kashmir were Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, SportsMinister Kiren Rijiju, ministers of state for home G Kishan Reddy and NityanandRai.

The Unionministers have already submitted their feedback to the PMO on theimplementation of various development schemes there.

There were twosets of feedback one on the initiatives taken by the UT administration andthe other on the Centres initiatives another official said.

Most of thecentral ministers stayed overnight at their respective places of visit such asBaramulla, Ganderbal, Doda, besides others.

In August lastyear, the Centre abrogated Article 370 provisions of the Constitution, whichgave a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, andbifurcated it into UTs Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

Since then, theCentre has been closely monitoring the on the ground implementation of variousdevelopment programmes there.

Jammu and Kashmiris currently under the Presidents rule.

Visit link:
Second batch of Union ministers to visit JK in April - The Kashmir Monitor

This entry was posted on February 22, 2020 at 4:45 pm and is filed under Integrative Medicine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. |