Jammu has emerged as education hub of north India: Union Minister Jitendra Singh JAMMU: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said Jammu region has emerged as the education hub of north India over the last seven years after Narendra Modi took over as the country”s prime minister. He said projects sanctioned simultaneously for Jammu and Srinagar have taken off in the winter capital but are languishing in the valley owing to “peculiar circumstances” there. “Jammu today has virtually emerged as the education hub of north India. We have IIMs, IITs, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, AIIMS, three government medical colleges within a range of 10 to 20 km as well as north India”s first ever teaching department of space technology by ISRO in central University Jammu,” the minister of state in the Prime Minister”s office said.