“Apprehensions of the people about the completion of this dream project before December 2024 deadline set by the Government are rising month after month”
With Central Government disclosing it before the parliament Tuesday this week that only 42% of the construction works of Awantipora AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) has been completed so far, the complaints from people of all hues particularly those residing in the vicinity of AIIMS site at Awantipora that work on this dream project is going on at a snail’s pace are proved beyond doubt by the Government’s written reply in the parliament. The matter regarding the completion of AIIMS at Awantipora as such demands and deserves immediate attention and intervention of the Jammu & Kashmir Government. While only 42% of civil construction of AIIMS Awantipora has been completed and 58% of it is yet to be completed, the dream of making AIIMS Awantipora functional is unlikely to come true even by December end in the ensuing year, i.e, 2024. Though deadline set for the completion of AIIMS Awantipora is more than a year away but the apprehensions of the people about the completion of this dream project before December 2024 deadline set by the Government are rising month after month despite Government fast tracking the work for the early completion of this key project. The apprehensions brewing among the people about the completion of this dream project before the deadline won’t remain there if an assurance about the completion of the project before the deadline of December 2024 would have come from the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar in his written reply in the parliament over the completion of the said project.
“As the incumbent Jammu & Kashmir Government is committed to not only complete the new developmental projects in given timelines but also to complete the languishing projects left incomplete by the previous popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state, the people in Jammu & Kashmir expect a timely intervention from the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Attal Dulloo for the completion of AIIMS Awantipora before the deadline of 2024.”
Since Chief Secretary Attal Duloo as J&K Government’s Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education Department way back in 2021 has himself pursued the matter regarding a no objection certificate from the defence ministry which had to be issued by it in view of the location of a military garrison in the vicinity of the AIIMS construction site at Awantipora, an assurance from the incumbent Chief Secretary Attall Dulloo who as Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education Department played a pivotal role in clearing the decks for resumption of works at AIIMS Awantipora can also put to rest the rising apprehensions about the completion of the civil construction works at AIIMS Awantipora before the deadline of December 2024. As the incumbent Jammu & Kashmir Government is committed to not only complete the new developmental projects in given timelines but also to complete the languishing projects left incomplete by the previous popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state, the people in Jammu & Kashmir expect a timely intervention from the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Attal Dulloo for the completion of AIIMS Awantipora before the deadline of 2024.
