Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 27: Reiterating commitment to develop Jammu city on most modern lines, Senior BJP leader Yudhvir Sethi today said the party honours historic support of the people and all out efforts would be made to develop the town as a major tourist hub, adding that work on the project to develop the city into a smart city has already begun.
He was addressing a gathering of people before kick starting various development works in different areas of Old Jammu City.
“We are committed for all round development of the State and with active support from the Central Government soon the State would have one of the best infrastructures in the country,” he added.
The areas in which infrastructure works were started include, Khilonya Wali Gali, Afghana Mohalla, Mohalla Jandraya and adjoining areas of the wholesale business hub of the town.
Various lane-drain works, street lightening and sanctioning of new mast lights was initiated.
On the occasion, Yudhvir Sethi along with a team of JMC officials inspected different areas and listened to the grievances projected by the people of these areas. He called upon the authorities to launch special sanitation drives in the area so as to give new look to the ever busy business streets of the old city.
He laid stress on maintaining quality standard of development works so as to create durable infrastructure.
Sethi said BJP is working on the agenda to upgrade infrastructure in all the three regions of the State and special focus would be given to those far-off areas which lack the much needed basic infrastructure.
He said economy of the State is very much dependant on tourism industry and all out efforts would be initiated to develop independent tourist circuits in Jammu region. Focus has to be made to retain those yatris which visit Shri Mata Vaishno Devi and expand the scope of pilgrim tourism into other parts of the province, he added.
Anil Masoom, Pardeep Singh Jamwal, Deep Singh, Ashok Gupta, Kuldeep Singh Jamwal, Arun Sethi, Pardeep Langeh, Suraj Parkash, Gurdash Sharma, Satish Kumar, Sanjeev Anand, Micky Vaid, Rahul, Ajay Kumar, Hemant, Vishu, Ankush, Pappu Sardar, Sonu, Amreek Singh, Ashwani Arora, Pankaj and others were present.
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