Rs 150 crore earmarked for purpose; Rs 57 cr for infrastructure in Badami Bagh Cantonment.
The Defence Ministry plan to relocate a transit camp of army in J&K is part of the development package unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the State earlier this month.
Official documents reveal that Defence Ministry will get Rs 150 crore for this purpose from the Rs 80000 crore package. While nobody from J&K government and Defence Ministry is willing to come on record over exact location of the camp, sources disclosed that funds would be spent for relocation of Army’s 216 Transit Camp located opposite 15 Corps headquarters at Badami Bagh here which has been found ‘unsafe’ after last year’s flood.
The Defence Ministry’s other priorities like repair of infrastructure in Badami Bagh Cantonment and some strategic bridges also find place in the reconstruction plan for the State.
According to the documents, Rs 57 crore have been earmarked for “special repairs to roads, buildings and within BB Cantonment, Kalai Bridge on river punch, Sukhato bridge, bridge on NH-144A at km 150 (sic)”.
In total, Defence Ministry would be getting Rs 207 crore on both the initiatives- which form part of “social infrastructure development” component of the package. The package has five components including humanitarian relief (Rs 6313 crore), crisis management (Rs 5858 crore), social infrastructure (Rs 8057 crore), development projects (Rs 5521 crore) and economic infrastructure (Rs 54319 crore).
