‘Kashmir government spent only one-third of central funds’
March 24th, 2011 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANSJammu, March 24 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government could not spend more than Rs.400 crore out of an allocation for Rs.1,200 crore under the Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan (PMRP) for fiscal 2010-2011 due to the summer violence last year, official data released here Thursday said.
The failure to spend Rs.800 crore has been attributed by the planning department to the summer violence in Kashmir, when all developmental activity came to a standstill.
The street protests coupled with violence, targetting public property, disrupted life in the Kashmir Valley from June to October last year and claimed over 100 lives.
The Valley, which experiences a severe winter has its peak working season during summer.
The prime minister had allocated Rs.24,000 crore in 2004 for reconstruction of infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir and also widening the developmental activities across the state, mostly in the Valley which had suffered massive destruction during the peak of militancy.
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