UT heralds ‘purple revolution’: Min

New Delhi, August 14

J&K heralds the ‘purple revolution’ of India by taking a lead in the lavender cultivation under the Aroma Mission in almost all the 20 districts of the Union Territory, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday.

Creating livelihood

Aroma Mission is generating new avenues of entrepreneurship. — Jitendra Singh, Union Minister

In particular, the districts of Kathua, Udhampur, Doda, Ramban, Kishtwar, Rajouri, Srinagar, Pulwama, Kupwara, Bandipora, Budgam, Ganderbal, Anantnag, Kulgam and Baramulla have made a huge headway in this direction, he observed.

Delivering the keynote address at the Special Webinar on Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Aroma Mission on the eve of India’s 75th Independence Day, Singh said that the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has visible footprints in J&K and the Northeast.

He said the CSIR’s Aroma Mission is generating new avenues of self-livelihood and entrepreneurship. India is a vast country and its different parts/regions have similar resources, which should be used by all stakeholders to everyone’s benefit, the minister added. — PTI