Timely Delivery

Chief Secretary, recently chaired the 2nd Empowered Committee Meeting of the Centre for Innovation and Transformation in Governance (CITaG) in which he emphasised uponlaying of focus on implementation of projects in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode after their identification by the Departments.

He took note of the progress made in hiring of technical resource persons for making this institution fully functional here. He also enquired about the capacity building programs initiated by CITaG to enhance the efficiency of the officers working here across the UT.

Taking note of the dozens of projects identified for taking up under PPP mode here, the Chief Secretary directed for showing team efforts and ensuring that each of them is implemented in a definite time frame

He made out that besides the equity from the private players and credit from 5he financial institutions the funding from Department of Economic Affairs, GoI and other relevant centrally sponsored schemes could also be explored to see these projects grounded here in the UT.

He took this occasion to enjoin upon the different stakeholders to show utmost coordination with each other and took it upon themselves for making these projects to see the light of the day in a time-bound manner.

It was announced that the first phase of recruitment under CITaG has been completed by IIM Jammu. The second phase, as per the MoU, will induct domain specialists in infrastructure, social sectors (education, health), HRD, IT, data analytics, legal affairs, and environment, along with 7 young professionals.