Srinagar, Oct 30: The government on Thursday said that the process of transferring 65 Kanals of adjoining land has been initiated for the construction of a Kisan Ghar, transport yards, and additional auction phars at the Bijbehara Fruit Mandi in Anantnag district.

The minister in charge of agriculture production, in a written reply to an unstarred question by MLA Syed Basir Veeri Shah, informed the assembly that the present mandi has been functional since August 2024.

“Construction of additional auction phars has been taken up under SASCI with an estimated cost of Rs 2 crore during the current financial year 2025–26, and the work is in progress,” the reply stated.

Responding to Shah’s query on whether the terminal, whose foundation was laid in 2014 at Jablipora-Bijbehara, was intended t

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