The first meeting of state level Sanctioning and Monitoring committee (SLSMC) for entrepreneurship development and employment Generation (EDEG) component of National Livestock Mission, was held here under Chairmanship of commissioner secretary Animal/Sheep Husbandry R.K. Bhagat.The Meeting was also attended by Director Planning Animal/Sheep husbandry, Directors of Kashmir and Jammu and senior officers of NABARD Regional office Jammu and SLBC.Taking stock of implementation of poultry venture capital scheme and Integrated Development of Small Ruminants and Rabbits (IDSRR) under EDEG, the chairman stressed upon the need to have focused attention on simplifying the sponsoring and sanctioning procedure of the cases forwarded to the banks and close coordination should be maintained between officials of banks and animal/ sheep husbandry at field level in selecting genuine cases for sponsoring and sanctioning.The Chairman said that it would go a long way to encourage them to establish units under the scheme. It was also decided that banks will accept cases under the EDEG component only after they are endorsed by respective district officers.Meeting was informed that this year GOI has allotted Rs 4.44 crore as subsidy for the EDEG component to NABARD and SLSMC sanctioned 87 cases under IDSRR and 113 cases under PVCFS.