Central funds aimed to meet J&K people’s aspirations: Nirmala Sitharaman
The Hindu
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the funds provided by the Centre in the past two years were aimed to meet the aspirations of people of Jammu and Kashmir.
On her maiden visit to the Union Territory (UT) after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, she stressed, “People want to grow, their aspirations are there to be realised. It is this common aspiration for which every citizen should be given space and that is being given to the people of Jammu and Kashmir post abrogation of Article 370.”
She was inaugurating ‘The Chinars’, a new Aayakar (income tax) Bhawan and a residential complex at Srinagar’s Rajbagh. In 2005, the IT building came under a militant attack and has now been relocated to a new place.