SRINAGAR: Secretary, Planning, Development & Monitoring Department, Aijaz Asad today held extensive deliberations with visiting World Bank(WB) team  in presence of other stakeholders about the way forward to complete the ongoing works of Jehlum-Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP) on time in a meeting at Civil Secretariat here.

Principal GMC, Srinagar; Chief Engineer, R&B (Central); Technical Director, JTFRP;  SE, R&B, Srinagar; Executive Engineer, ERA besides other concerned officers were also present during the meeting. At the outset, the Secretary  expressed gratitude towards the WB team members who had been on  visit to UT from past three days to take on spot assessment of  progress made on the projects funded by it.

He assured the members that the commitments made earlier would be met in letter and spirit. He simultaneously directed the field functionaries of the executing agencies to further speed-up the pace of works to complete these projects well ahead of their deadlines. The Secretary further called upon the concerned officers to ensure that most of the unspent funds are expended for creating the critical infrastructure envisaged under this multi-crore project as these are of critical in nature.

He also stressed on seeking the necessary permissions, clearances or certificates for smooth running of several of the projects taken under JTFRP. He called for aligning all the parameters with that of  WB guidelines so that there is no incoherence between the two regarding culmination of each of these works.

The Secretary further discussed the ways and means of spending  saved amount on other critically significant works. He sought the assistance of  team in turning some of the proposals into reality as these are highly essential for disaster mitigation or connectivity of the far off areas in the UT. The projects as well as key components that came up for discussion during this meeting includes Bone & Joint Hospital Srinagar, Emergency Operation Centre, Dewatering Stations, four bridges, Additional block of LD Hospital and other technical/audit issues.

It was given out in the meeting that a total of 213 projects were taken-up under JTFRP at a total cost of US $ 250 Million. Out of these 189 projects (89%) stands completed and 19 are currently under different stages of progress with a financial disbursement of US $179 million till date. It was also revealed that these projects include raising different critical infrastructure projects, generating livelihoods and capacity building of the people here in the UT.

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