Jammu Press Colony

Sounds comfortable but is yet to be built. People associated with press media had been demanding for press colony on the pattern of Srinagar but government has not reached to a conclusion yet due to certain constrains well known to them.

Member Legislative Assembly, Ashok Khajuria is one among several legislators who had pleaded for Development of Press Colony on the pattern of Srinagar. Khajuria, senior BJP leader, urged upon government to consider the press colony on priority for the larger interest of media people, who are facing lot of problems on every front.

Khajuria in his usual style of lighter vein asked for the transferring of portfolios of Housing and Urban Minister and Rural Development Minister on the pretext of that one being villager cares of cities and another hailing from city looks after villages. He was deliberating upon uncertainty created by National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) across the Jammu city for the past few years, reports revealed. 

Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs), also are in queue for plots and flats. To which MLA Majid Wani asked government that it should be taken seriously to establish a colony for MLAs. “Proposal to address the issue has been already taken into consideration” Deputy Chief Minister informed, as per reports. Even Chief Minister, had taken notice of the issue and had assured to do home work over the subject, reports revealed.

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