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Mobile soil testing laboratory worth Rs 45 lakhs bites dust in Bijbehara Nursery 6/27/2016 10:48:25 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, June 27: Mobile Soil Testing Laboratory/van purchased at a cost of Rupees 45 lakhs in March of this year by Horticulture department Kashmir is gathering dust at Bijbehara. The Mobile Soil Testing Laboratory/van was purchased to provide soil analysis to farmers at their doorsteps under centrally sponsored scheme "National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture" (NMSA) , however ironically the Mobile Soil Testing Laboratory/van hasn't moved an inch after the day it was inaugurated with much media hype. Mobile Soil Testing Laboratories for South and North Kashmir were inaugurated by then Director Agriculture Kashmir Showkat Ahmad Beig in presence of senior officers of the department and a group of farmers at Lalmandi Srinagar on 30th of March this year. Commissioner Secretary Agriculture Production Department Muhammad Ashraf Bukhari was informed through video conferencing that two soil testing labs/vans were purchased at a cost of Rs. 45 lakh each under "National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture" (NMSA). In Anantnag, the soil testing van was flagged off from the Deputy Commissioner's office and was sent to Bijbehara for soil testing, however is yet to return. Parked in a nursery at Bijbehara, the unregistered Soil testing van is gathering dust, officials said. They said that not a single test has been done through this mobile lab and the reports of those samples which were collected on very first day are awaited. They said that mobile laboratory sans technical staff, key facilities including distilled water important for soil testing. A Soil analysist of the department has also raised questions, saying shifting the mobile vans from Directorate office to district headquarters is not sound logically and technically. He says that Mobile soil testing van can't work independently as it will require a static lab always besides technical staff for operating the mobile van which department as ignored. Chief Horticulture Officer, Anantnag, Abdul Kabir, admitted that the unit sans technical staff. They have provided us a single member to us for operating the lab but now I have nominated two employees of my department for training," he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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