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Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who delivered the fund code successful the J&K Assembly connected Monday (February 2, 2026), said the elections held successful J&K aft a spread of respective years marked “a important milestone”.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the BJP expressed disappointment implicit the code and its contents.
“The past twelvemonth marks a important milestone successful the antiauthoritarian travel of J&K with the enactment of an elected authorities aft a spread of respective years. This modulation to fashionable governance has strengthened nationalist religion successful antiauthoritarian institutions. My authorities has focused connected restoring participatory governance, rebuilding nationalist confidence, and ensuring that the dependable of each portion and assemblage finds look successful policy-making,” Mr. Sinha said.
“Highlighting the achievements made successful work delivery, roadworthy connectivity, powerfulness assemblage and tourism,” Mr. Sinha said, “The improvement trajectory of J&K continues to beryllium guided by the foundational principles of Economy, Ecology, and Equity. These principles are not simply aspirational but service arsenic the guiding model for argumentation formulation and implementation.”
He said notable advancement has been achieved crossed sectors, and the authorities remained conscious of the request for sustained and focused efforts to guarantee balanced, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable development.
“Sustained reforms successful transparency, accountability, integer governance, and citizen-centric work transportation person importantly strengthened nationalist spot and organization efficiency,” the J&K L-G said.
During the past year, Mr. Sinha said, the J&K Government placed renewed accent connected responsive and people-centric administration. “Regular nationalist grievance redressal meetings astatine the Chief Minister’s outreach bureau and the strengthening of J&K Samadhan portal person ensured that governance reaches the doorstep of citizens. Thousands of grievances person been resolved done time-bound interventions, reinforcing spot betwixt the authorities and the people,” helium added.
Terming infrastructure improvement “a captious operator of economical transformation”, Mr. Sinha said, “The roadworthy assemblage has witnessed unprecedented concern amounting to ₹61,528 crore, encompassing expressways, National Highways, ringing roads, and tunnels, importantly enhancing determination and inter-regional connectivity. In a historical milestone, the Kashmir Valley has been connected with the remainder of the state done the railway network, opening caller avenues for trade, tourism, and economical progress.”
Referring to the Pahalgam attack, Mr. Sinha said, contempt challenges arising from security-related incidents and earthy calamities, the Union Territory recorded 1.78 Cr. tourer visits successful 2025. “The first-ever Chrysanthemum Garden, ‘Bagh-e-Gul-e Dawood’, has been thrown unfastened for tourists. Just arsenic the Tulip Garden defines our spring, Bagh-e-Gul-e-Dawood is acceptable to go the definitive icon of our autumn, inviting the satellite to witnesser the quality of Kashmir during the Autumn Season,” helium added.
Mr. Sinha said the authorities was going to present a large task for the sustainable improvement of emerging tourer destinations with concern from authorities backing arsenic good arsenic backstage assemblage information to broaden the tourism footprint successful Jammu and Kashmir.
PDP legislator Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra said the L-G’s code lacked “will and imaginativeness of radical of J&K”. “People came retired and voted for the NC. First, the NC compromised connected Article 370, and present Statehood is not adjacent mentioned successful the speech. In spite of having 50 MLAs, the BJP communicative is allowed to dominate, and a normalisation process is acceptable in,” Mr. Parra said.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Sharma said the L-G’s code was “disappointing for each section, particularly the unemployed, the aged and women”. “The papers lone mentioned cardinal schemes. Where is the committedness of escaped 200 units successful it?” Mr. Sharma said.
