Jammu and Kashmir government’s capacity to spend funds on infrastructure projects has come into question as it has spent only Rs 71 crore of the Rs 1500 crore funded by the World Bank for reconstruction of infrastructure damaged in 2014 flood and for enhancing the state’s disaster management capacities.
The deadline for completion of the “Jehlum Tawi Flood Recovery Project” is 30 June 2020. Spending more than Rs 1400 crore in 13 months appears to be tall order given the performance so far.
But Chief Executive Officer of the project, Dr Raghav Langer, said compared to the expenditure of 1.2 per cent six months ago, the total spending at present is 4.5 per cent.
