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No new admin units for now, govt focused on strengthening existing ones: J&K CM

Jammu, Feb 7 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today stated that the government currently has no plans of creating new administrative units, as priority is to operationalise previously established ones.
The Chief Minister made this intervention during the Question Hour on supplementary queries raised by MLA Khanyar, Salman Ali Sagar and several other members, regarding the demand for carving out a new Tehsil by bifurcating certain areas falling under Eidgah and Srinagar North tehsils during the Budget Session here in the Legislative Assembly.
Informing the House, the Chief Minister said that the government’s focus is to make the already created administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir fully functional.
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