Officials say these objectives are meant to be read together, not as a checklist to be traded off against one another. In SupportOfficials making the case for the policy point first to the scale mismatch between Jammu and Kashmir’s infrastructure needs and its public finances. The push is also framed as consistent with the National Infrastructure Pipeline and the Centre’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision, giving Jammu and Kashmir projects a route to central funding streams and national visibility through an NIP identification number. The Flip SideFor all its ambition, the policy carries risks that officials and observers of Jammu and Kashmir’s administrative history will recognise. A Jammu and Kashmir Viability Gap Funding corpus of Rs 100 crore and a Project Development Fund of just Rs 5 crore are modest sums against the scale of infrastructure the policy envisions across eleven sectors spanning.