Jammu: shows that more developments in J & K are on cards, Petroleum and natural gas ministers and natural housing & housing, Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday that the Metro train project at J & K will be approved next week.
He said the request for LPG gas pipes would also be given the main priority by the government.
The minister said this when talking to the media during his visit to Jammu as part of a ‘public outreach program’ ongoing in J & K.
The minister said that many schemes under the government currently reached their point of saturation.
He quotes that PM Ujwala Yojana who has provided an Eight Crore LPG connection so far.
Referring to the J & K-Bhatinda gas pipeline project, Singh said, “We currently have 19,000 km of gas pipes and it is likely to be expanded up to 35,000 KMS I.E.
Additional 16,000 km to be added and J & K will be given a priority.” “After the abrogation of Article 370, the development project that has been shared for years in J & K has been taken and many have been completed in these years.
The development paradigm has now changed in the proven J & K of the fact that development work has reached speed Under a new government and is now resolved in the time line at J & K, “he was maintained.