Chief Secretary reviews implementation of infra projects under PMG

SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo on Thursday chaired a meeting at Civil Secretariat here to review the pace of implementation of infrastructure projects being monitored through the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) portal.

The meeting was attended by Additional Chief Secretary, Jal Shakti; Additional Chief Secretary, Forest, Ecology & 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; Chief General Manager BSNL and others attended the meeting through video conferencing.

While chairing the meeting, Chief Secretary emphasized 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 implementation of projects.

Atal Dulloo inquired about the latest status of each project from the concerned officers and the challenges being faced by them in completion of the projects.

A brief presentation was made giving details about the summary of PMG issues pertaining to J&K on the portal.

It was given out that a total of 116 issues have been flagged on PMG portal out of which 106 have been resolved while the rest are at various stages of resolution.

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

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