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DRAFT ANNUAL PLAN 2009-10

The Allocation for year 2008-09 under District Plan was to the tune of Rs 6950.00  lacs including Rs 750.00  as loan and Rs 1100.00 Lacs  as  capital additionality against which an expenditure of Rs 4407.91  lacs  has been incurred by the end of March 2009. The details are as under:

The Annual Plan 2009-10 has been worked out at Rs. 7138.81 Lacs  as per the ceiling conveyed by the  Planning and Dev. Department t, the details of which are as under:-                                          

                1.   State Share                             5438.81 lacs

                2.   Projectise                               500.00 Lacs

                3.   Loan                                      1200.00 lacs

                      Total                                    7138.81 lacs

An amount of Rs 500.00 Lacs have been earmarked for upgradation of roads in the District as per the direction of Plan and Dev. Department, which shall be monitored by the Planning Commission of India directly.

Keeping in view the priorities of the LAHDC, emphasis has been made  for  completion of  ongoing schemes and strengthening of productivity under Agriculture, Education, Health, and allied Sectors.

During the year 2009-10, it is expected that 73 various ongoing works shall be  completed.

Development of infrastructure:

a) New Sub Divisions Drass and Tehsil Sankoo have since  been created while new building for SDM Drass has been constructed. No office complex has been constructed for Tehsildar Sankoo. Proposals have accordingly been kept for Construction of Tehsil Office at Sankoo which will house Tehsil Office, Qtr for Tehsildar and Meeting hall. Similarly a need has been felt for construction of meeting /Conference Hall at Sub Divisional headquarters of Drass and Zanskar beside Tehsil headquarter Sankoo. Adequate provisions have been kept for the purpose in current year plan proposal.

b)    During last winter months, heavy snowfall was experienced and snow clearance was a real challenge to   District Administration. It was felt that snow clearance should be undertaken not only at District Headquarter but at also at Sub Divisional and Block level. While reviewing the infrastructure/ machinery available with Mechanical Department, need for procuring Dozers and other implements was felt. It was also observed that one Dozer should be permanently stationed at Drass and another at Sankoo for cleaning of link roads. One old Dozer stationed at Padum was also out of order due to some mechanical fault which has become a serious  impediment in early snow clearance. Therefore one new Dozer is proposed to be  stationed at Padum. Accordingly adequate provision has been proposed in District Plan 2009-10 for procuring additional Machinery by Mechanical  Engineering department.

c)  A passenger lounge at Civil Helipad Padum is also proposed for the convenience of passengers who ferry in helicopter from Padum/Leh/Kargil during winter months, as they have to wait for hours in sub-zero temperature at helipad.

E- Governance:

For better monitoring of Sub Divisions at Drass and Zanskar, proposal for providing facility of video conferencing  between District Headquarter and Padum /Drass has also been proposed in the current year plan.

Strengthening Health care of needy persons:

It has been observed that many poor people in Kargil suffer from diseases which are normally not curable/ treatable in Kargil District and consequently they have to go outside district/State for medication / treatment. Being poor and non resourceful, their disease which otherwise are curable go unattended and leads to their premature deaths.

It is proposed that a token provision of Rs 10.00 Lacs is kept on this welfare measure under Social welfare sector. The aid will be sanctioned to the needy person without substantial source of income  in  case they fall under BPL category. Committee headed by Dy. Commissioner already constituted  by the Govt. for sanctioning prosthetic aid, pension, grants under NFB etc. may also sanction cases under this sector.

Source : Chief Planning Officer, Kargil