J&K CM Omar Abdullah to visit Poonch for development review

By  News On Air   Nov 21, 2024

In Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, all Ministers and Administrative Secretaries will be visiting the border district of Poonch today for high-level review of development works. During the visit, around 10 delegations will meet the CM and his Ministers and various projects/schemes will be inaugurated virtually, while the Cabinet will meet at the Civil Secretariat Jammu at 10 AM on Friday to take up host of issues.

Mr Abdullah and all five Ministers including Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary, Sakina Itoo, Javaid Beg, Javed Rana and Satish Sharma will be reaching Poonch today for reviewing ongoing development works and announce some more projects for the border district.

Additional Chief Secretaries and the Administrative Secretaries of different departments, Heads of Departments (HoDs) and other senior officers will also attend the meeting. Poonch is the second district in the Union Territory where such a meeting with entire Cabinet and Administrative Secretaries is being held and similar meetings are also proposed in other districts later.

First such meeting in the series was held at Ganderbal on November 9. The Poonch district administration has made arrangements for the high-profile visits and give detailed briefing about the projects completed, under execution and in the pipeline. Meanwhile, the Cabinet is also scheduled to meet in Jammu on Friday at 10 AM and various development projects and other issues will figure in the Cabinet meeting to be chaired by the Chief Minister.