Jammu, Mar 13: Asserting upon the completion of the infrastructures and other projects on deadline, Chief Secretary, AtalDulloo today reviewed the pace and progress of World Bank funded Jhelum &Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP). He impressed upon the concerned authorities to make a robust plan for around Rs 140 Cr savings amount out of the total outlay for 213 sub-projects funded under it.
The meeting was attended by the CEO, ERA by Principal Secretary, Higher Education; Commissioner Secretary, I&C; Secretary, PWD; Secretary, Health; Secretary, School Education; MD, JKPCC; Commissioner, SMC besides other officers. Srinagar based officers participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
During the meeting the Chief Secretary directed for considering some significant works for upgradation of infrastructure in our education, health, disaster management and livelihood generation here so that these savings are spent on a positive developmental front in a time-bound manner.
He asked for identifying the works that are critical and of most emergent nature to be taken up shortly and completed before December this year. He enjoined upon the concerned authorities to assess the viability of such projects beforehand and take measures accordingly to ground them within the onset of upcoming working season.
Dulloo also stressed on holding consultations among different departments to ascertain their urgent needs regarding augmentation of their capacities and mitigating of disaster management in future.
He even asked about the issues faced in completion of ongoing projects and the dates for their completion. He emphasised on ensuring that all the ongoing and newly taken up works are completed before December this year, which is the deadline of this project as well.
During the session, CEO of ERA, Dr. Syed SehrishAsgar, presented an overview of the project’s achievements. Out of the 213 sub-projects, 186 have been completed with an expenditure of Rs 1363 Cr. Major components of the project include infrastructure reconstruction, road and bridge restoration, urban flood management, livelihood strengthening, disaster risk management, and emergency response.
The JTFRP has introduced several innovations including rigid pavement roads, digital risk databases, BALA schools, state-of-the-art Emergency Operation Centers, and green hospital buildings across various districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Chief Secretary emphasized the importance of prioritizing critical infrastructure upgrades and ensuring timely completion of all ongoing and new projects.
Dr Sehrish further revealed that the major components includes reconstruction & strengthening of Critical infrastructure (40 projects), reconstruction of Roads and bridges (31 projects), Restoration of Urban Flood Management Infrastructure (13 projects), Restoration and Strengthening of Livelihoods (26 projects), Strengthening Disaster risk management capacity (22 projects) and Contingent Emergency Response (74 projects).
