Dr. Jitendra Singh Thanks Finance Minister for Budget Allocations

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New Delhi , 10 Jul 2014

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions today thanked the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley for financial allocation for the State of Jammu & Kashmir. Dr Jitendra Singh conveyed his gratitude on behalf of the people of J&K for, among other things, sanctioning an I.I.T. for Jammu. Dr Jitendra Singh had personally placed a proposal before the HRD Ministry for an I.I.T. in Jammu.Talking to media outside the Parliament House, Dr Jitendra Singh observed that Jaitley had adopted a balanced approach not only while allocating funds to different States, but had also tried to strike a balance among the different regions within each State. Citing the example of Jammu & Kashmir, he said, while Jammu had been given an I.I.T., for Kashmir Valley there is a Pashmina promotion allocation and for Ladakh there is provision to promote Solar projects. In addition, both the capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar had been provided funds for upgrading of their respective Sports Stadia.Dr Jitendra Singh also thanked the Finance Minister for extra allocation to support pensioners keeping in view that the number of pensioners in the country is now more than the number of serving officials. He also thanked the Finance Minister for funding the Science & Technology projects and the space programme for the launch of satellite voyage to Mars.