Jammu, September 20
To provide additional employment to the rural population, the government has framed some policies under which a large number of people would be covered.
Minister of State for Rural Development Aijaz Ahmed Khan recently chaired a high-level meeting in which he directed the officials concerned to visit villages and make the people aware of the schemes launched by the government so that a maximum number of people could be benefitted.
The government has decided to engage a large number of people in pisciculture and beekeeping. For this purpose, it has recently announced huge subsidies under these projects.
Terming that there was a huge potential in fish farming, Aijaz said, “I have directed the field officers to make frequent visits in their respective areas and chalk out strategies to improve the condition of fish farms which are in a bad shape so that more people could be engaged and revenue could also be increased”.
He said the officials concerned had also been directed to take up the issue of illegal extraction of stones and sand from water bodies to save these from environmental hazards. “Instructions have been issued to the officials to purchase livestock and engage labourers to enhance the productivity,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department conducted awareness camps in a number of villages to make the farmers aware of various programmes and schemes in apiculture.
A senior official said the government had started various schemes for the promotion of apiculture to encourage the farmers to adopt it.
He impressed upon the farmers to adopt beekeeping as an additional vocation as agricultural land had been shrinking day by day which was a matter of great concern. “Fifty per cent subsidy is being provided to beekeepers for establishing a bee colony under the district plan,” he added.
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