Achieve specified core benchmarks expeditiously: CS to Admn Secys
J&K needs to act fast on power sector, business, ULB reforms
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Jan 19: In order to get 2% of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) as additional borrowings from the Government of India as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission, the Chief Secretary of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir BVR Subrahmanyam has directed the concerned Administrative Secretaries to achieve the specified core benchmarks as expeditiously as possible.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that in the month of May last year the Union Government raised borrowing limits for the States and Union Territories for the current fiscal to 5% of the Gross State Domestic Product from 3% subject to their carrying out specific reforms.