My govt’s 3 yrs a success story of peace, development: Omar

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 9/10/2012 1:05:30 AM

SRINAGAR, Sept 9: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that the last three and a half years of his government were a success story of progress on both peace and development fronts.
He said that restoration of peace helped to carry forward development programmes on faster pace and attend the public grievances with more attention and concentration.
Omar said that his endeavour was to take peace dividend to every household and lay strong edifice for peaceful and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir where justice and good-governance would rule the roast.
He was addressing a public gathering at Dubjan after laying foundation of eco-tourism village at Heerpora on Mughal Road from Shopian side. The Chief Minister said that development of eco-villages along the picturesque scenery overlapping Mughal Road would attract nature lovers and tourists in this area helping in generation of economic activities for the people.
He highlighted the importance of employing eco-tourism concept in the overall tourism development programmes to help conserve ecology and environment. He said that application of scientific methodology in developing tourist resorts inconsonance with ecological requirements is the need of the hour to sustain state’s tourism potential for next generation.
The Chief Minister said that tourism embedded economic development and welfare of the state as such its safeguarding was the national duty of all the residents of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that people especially youth have to get involved at all levels in the government programmes aimed at protection and conservation of State’s bio-diversity, forests and environment.
The Chief Minister asked the people to participate in afforestation and be actively involved in safeguarding the forests of the State.
Despite heavy downpour at Dubjan and enroute large number of people received the Chief Minister and welcomed him for visiting the area and laying foundation for economic activities for the people of the backward pocket of the area.
The Chief Minister said that holistic and equitable development of all the regions and sub-regions of the area was benchmark of the governance of his government. He said that reaching out to people in all areas had been made necessary feature in the functioning of the administration.
Omar said that upliftment of backward and remote areas received additional attention in the planning and development process. He said he himself monitored the development and upliftment of backward pockets and weaker sections of the society regularly.
The Chief Minister said that empowering common people to make administration answerable and ask questions to the government for its every action and performance was his endeavour and through this initiative he intended to bring in good-governance and transparency besides curbing corruption.
Underlining the economic importance of Mughal Road, Omar said that by completion of this road the dream of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah to connect the Valley with Poonch and Rajouri via Shopian and open up backward pockets for economic betterment was realized.
The Chief Minister thanked the central government for providing financial support to the state for construction of this road and said that the road started percolating economic benefits to the people in this remote area.
Minister for Forest, Mian Altaf Ahmad, Minister for Tourism, Nawang Rigzin Jora and Minister of State for R&B, Javid Ahmad Dar were accompanying the Chief Minister. They also addressed the public meeting.
The eco-tourism village Heerpora was being developed at a cost of Rs. 70 lakhs of which Rs 50 lakhs would be spent on infrastructure and Rs 20 lakhs on capacity building of youth of the area for taking to tourism as a means for earning livelihood.
The Chief Minister also inaugurated Tented Colony of Wildlife at Dubjan and laid foundation of Shelter Shed at Peer Ki Gali. He also laid foundations for other forest, wildlife and tourist infrastructures in the area.

 

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