Beig stresses on social sector

SRINAGAR: Besides the productive sector, the Jammu and Kashmir government is thinking about working on the social sector to restore peace in the state, said state minister of finance and planning Muzaffar Hussain Beig here on Wednesday.
He said the previous National Conference (NC) government had left behind an empty coffer and had failed to draw benefit from Centrally sponsored schemes.
Beig said his government would try to improve the lot of the poor by implementing various social schemes of the Central government.
The minister said the NC government had, intriguingly, tried to pledge the entire budgetary allocations, including the salary of the employees of the state, to the Industrial Development Bank of India for raising loans for the construction of the new mega-power project, leaving the on-going power projects half way.