Plan to develop model villages in J&K
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06/12/2003
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Tribune (New Delhi)
One village in each rural block of Jammu and Kashmir is being developed as a model village for the implementation of a plan to transform the rural profile in the state. Disclosing this here yesterday, the Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, issued instructions to take up three villages each in Kashmir and Jammu province for the implementation of the plan in the first instance to transform the rural profile. He was addressing a high-level meeting to review the progress of various rural development schemes in the state. He said the development of rural areas was essential for the state.