Show no laxity in completion of projects : CM

In her first major review meeting after assuming charge, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today hinted at reorienting the Planning and Development Department so that it was able to professionally handle the preparation of quality DPRs (detailed project reports), the absence of which she said was the real bane of project delays. She vouched for a mechanism where ‘empanelled consultants’ removed technical bottlenecks and fast-tracked the DPR preparation, enabling the executing agencies to deliver the projects on time. “If funds crunch was the problem in the past, nowadays it is the…

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