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High-level team of Ministry of DoNER to visit Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow

| @indiablooms | Sep 04, 2019, at 05:50 pm

New Delhi, Sept 4 (IBNS): A High-level team of officers from Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) will be visiting Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow, officials said.

The purpose of the visit is to look into the new reforms and best practices that can be introduced in J&K, read a government statement. 

The Union Minister of DoNER (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh recently chaired a meeting with the officials of DoNER Ministry. During the meeting, the Minister discussed various issues and developments related to the upcoming visit.

The key focus areas of the visit will be: Sustainable livelihood giving due emphasis on women empowerment and community based bottom-up approach, eco-tourism and bamboo based cottages, exchange exposure programmes of North East and Jammu & Kashmir of farmers and artesans, promotional show rooms in J&K by Ministry of DoNER (CBTC) of local products, community based natural resource management, training of J&K artesans in CBTC, Burnihat, collaboration programmes on skill development and cultural exposure and exchange programmes.

Last month, Parliament passed a statutory resolution removing Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and the J&K Reorganisation Bill, 2019 which bifurcates the State.

Approval on Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019 makes J&K a Union territory with a Legislative Assembly, along with UT status to Ladakh without a Legislative Assembly.

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