Ensure timely completion of projects: Chief Secretary

Srinagar, Sep 6: Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo Friday called for the timely completion of projects.

Chairing a meeting at the civil secretariat here to review the pace of implementation of infrastructure projects being monitored through the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) portal, the chief secretary emphasised the need to address the issues being faced by implementing agencies on priority to ensure timely completion of projects.

He directed the officers to work in a coordinated manner to iron out all issues which are causing hindrances in the implementation of projects.

Dulloo inquired about the latest status of each project from the concerned officers and the challenges being faced by them in the completion of the projects. A brief presentation was given about the summary of PMG issues about J&K on the portal.

It was informed that a total of 116 issues had been flagged on the PMG portal of which 106 had been resolved while the rest were at various stages of resolution.

The issues that came up for discussion during the meeting include non-availability of electric connection in 660 locations in 13 districts, saturation of 4G mobile coverage of uncovered villages through USOF, Shahpur Kandi Dam, 4L ring road, bypass around Srinagar, and 5G and 4G expansion of Reliance Jio.

The PMG portal of Invest India is a unique institutional mechanism to facilitate the resolution of bottlenecks in infrastructure projects and do milestone-based project monitoring of the same.

Additional Chief Secretary, Jal Shakti; Additional Chief Secretary, Forest, Ecology and Environment; Principal Secretary, Power Development Department; Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir; Commissioner Secretary Information Technology; Secretary, Public Works (R&B) and other senior officers. Divisional Commissioner, Jammu; Regional Officer, NHAI, J&K Jammu; and Chief General Manager BSNL attended the meeting.