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Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh | COVER STORY

Jammu... the first city to have IIT, IIM, and AIIMS

Health r1,828 10 800 Education

crore is the progress Government MBBS and 297
n AIIMS inaugurated cost for the ongoing Medical PG seats were n The National Education
in Vijaypur, Jammu. construction of College added after Policy 2020 was fully

n Construction of AIIMS in Avantipura. started. 2019. implemented in Jammu
and Kashmir.
100-bed hospitals
by DRDO in Baltal DNB seats n 51 new colleges,
and Chandanwari. 3,104 372 approved. including 3 engineering
n Two new cancer Wellness centres, colleges, and 600
additional seats were
institutes were apart from 270 Jan added in Polytechnic.
Aushadhi centres,
approved and were established.
started in the state. n 396 schools were
approved for
upgradation in Phases
Medical seats increased
I, II, and III under PM
1,690 49 BSc Nursing Shri Yojana.
seats added in n 46 thousand children
paramedical. BSc Paramedical who were out of
19 colleges added school were brought
208 into the mainstream.
Seats added in Also, 1.21 lakh students
2,305 MSc Nursing.
nursing seats have from classes 9th to
12th were registered in
been added.
vocational courses.

vote in large numbers, trusting the Constitution DEVELOPMENT WITH RESTORATION OF
of India, trusting the tricolour, trusting the de- TRUST IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR
mocracy of India. For the first time after 1947, If the development of Jammu and Kashmir is to be
Block Development Councils elections were guaranteed, then first of all, the people have to be
held in Jammu and Kashmir. Today, for the first taken into confidence, and trust also has to be placed
time, representatives elected by the people are in them. This thought of Prime Minister Narendra
working at every level of administration, be it Modi is being steadfastly taken forward by the Lieu-
MLA, BDC, or DDC. The spirit and dignity of the tenant Governor. Taking feedback from the common
Constitution have been reestablished in Jammu people through the ‘Mulakat’ ‘Back to Village’ scheme,
and Kashmir, which is a true tribute to Baba and strengthening the Panchayati Raj system has
Saheb Ambedkar.

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