Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo has directed the Planning Department to prepare a comprehensive roadmap for aligning Jammu and Kashmir's budgetary planning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), following a review of a strategy proposed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Chairing a meeting here, Dulloo asked the department to constitute a dedicated team to work with the UNDP and identify interventions required under each SDG to achieve targeted outcomes over the coming years.

He directed officials to map all Centrally Sponsored Schemes and Union Territory government schemes against relevant SDGs to clearly establish their contribution towards specific goals and targets. He also called for identi...