Shivraj Chouhan says 5 lakh PMAY beneficiaries in J&K to be provided houses soon

SRINAGAR: With main curate Omar Abdullah sitting adjacent to him, Union curate for agriculture and agrarian improvement Shivraj Singh Chouhan connected Thursday said astir 5 lakh radical successful Jammu and Kashmir did not ain a house, and they would beryllium allotted 1 soon.Addressing a property conference, Chouhan said the allotment of 93% of houses nether the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) successful J&K had been completed, and the remaining eligible beneficiaries had been identified. “In a caller survey, 5 lakh names person been identified arsenic deserving housing. The allotments volition beryllium made soon aft the verification process,” helium said.Under the LG-led medication earlier, Omar had questioned the criteria for identifying the lodging strategy beneficiaries successful J&K.

“Before allotting land, govt indispensable clarify whom it considers ‘homeless’,” helium had said successful July 2023. He had made it wide that helium was opposed to the inclusion of those who came to Kashmir aft the abrogation of Article 370 successful 2019 nether this scheme.J&K parties person successful the past accused the Centre of attempting to settee ‘outsiders’ successful Kashmir.Chouhan emphasised that a developed J&K was important to PM Narendra Modi’s imaginativeness of a ‘Viksit Bharat’.

He praised the state’s initiative, ‘Kisan Khidmat Ghar’ — a one-stop centre providing farmers entree to each cultivation services nether 1 roof.The curate said farmers successful the UT who had received onshore allotments from govt but lacked authoritative documentation would beryllium considered for inclusion nether the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Govt was besides readying to motorboat the Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme soon to guarantee that horticulture crops were accurately mapped and included nether the PM Fasal Bima Yojana, helium added.Chouhan expressed restitution with the assortment of horticulture crops grown successful the region, but besides raised a captious contented of imported works materials often turning retired to beryllium infected aft 2 oregon 3 years. To code this, a Rs 150-crore Clean Plant Centre would beryllium established successful Srinagar nether the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture, helium said. “It volition absorption connected clean, disease-free planting worldly for apples, almonds, walnuts and berries.

Private nurseries volition besides beryllium supported to guarantee high-quality, pathogen-free plants are made disposable to farmers,” helium added.Calling ‘saffron’ a awesome of Kashmir’s identity, Chouhan announced that the Centre would found a insubstantial civilization laboratory and nursery to boost its production. He said the National Saffron Mission would beryllium revised to suit section conditions, and an adept squad of scientists would beryllium formed to amended productivity and trim losses.