Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 28: Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Ab. Rahim Rather today urged for coordinated efforts between the concerned departments and Border Roads Organization to build up stocks of essential commodities, food grains, petroleum products and key building materials in Ladakh region as per the realistic requirements projected by the concerned District Development Commissioners of the twin snow bound districts of Leh and Kargil.
“In view of the prevailing weather forecast surprises and forthcoming Assembly Elections, complete dumping of stocks shall be made essentially during the three months of June, July and August this year”, Mr. Rather asserted.
Speaking at a high level meeting, Rather asked the Deputy Commissioners of Leh and Kargil Districts to contact Administrative Secretaries directly in case of any bottlenecks in smooth winter-stocking, adding that the concerned heads of the department should also approach Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir to remove any difficulty coming in the way of implementing winter-stocking plan on the ground. He directed to speed up dispatch of consignments to the region from next month.
The Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora, Member Parliament, Leh – Kargil Constituency, Thupstan Chewang, Minister of State for Science & Technology, Feroz Ahmad Khan and Chairman, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Rigzin Spalbar were also present in the meeting.
Among others Administrative Secretaries of Forest, CA&PD, Transport and Ladakh Affairs, I.G.P. Traffic Kashmir, Transport Commissioner, District Development Commissioner Leh, heads of various departments and Public Sector Undertakings and representatives of Army and various oil companies also attended the meeting.
Mr. Rather asked the concerned departments to put in place adequate number of weight bridges at Sonamarg to check avoidable traffic jams, adding that management of weight bridges should be the sole responsibility of Motor Vehicles Department. He asked the Transport Department to keep adequate number of trucks available to ferry targeted quota of food grains, petroleum products and key construction materials up to Leh and Kargil districts without any difficulty and delay.
The Finance Minister also asked the Deputy Commissioners of Leh and Kargil to clear outstanding liabilities of the J&K SRTC on account of hiring of trucks from it.
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