Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Government considers availability of basic amenities in remote and inaccessible areas of the State as its priority and is making a coordinated effort to equip such areas with the latest infrastructural requirements.

State Minister for Health, Floriculture and Horticulture Sham Lal Sharma, while addressing a public meet here, informed that areas which remained neglected over the years have been accorded priority in development works.

Sharma stated that besides ensuring provision of basic facilities, the government has taken several concrete measures for the socio-economic upliftment of people residing there.

Complete transparency is being maintained while executing development projects and inhabitants have also been asked to monitor the works, he said.

Sharma, while speaking on the water supply issue, informed that eight new lift irrigation schemes have been sanctioned for Tehsil Akhnoor while PHE department has sanctioned sufficient funds for Sub-Division Akhnoor.

The minister also informed that to streamline education sector, many schools have been constructed and upgraded in Tehsil Akhnoor.

Besides, a number of works would be taken in hand under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) and state and centrally sponsored schemes for further development, the minister informed.

He asked the people to prepare the list of urgent works which would be focussed on NREGA. He directed the executing agencies to use economic packages properly so that the benefits percolate to the masses.