Srinagar, March 12 -- Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary informed the Legislative Assembly while responding to a question from BJP's Rajiv Jasrotia.

He said that around 625 kanal of land has been identified for industrial estates in Kashmir, while proposals for 1,207 have been submitted for Jammu.

He further informed that a total of 1,869 acres of land has been proposed for industrial estates across Jammu, and in the past two years, 691 acres have been transferred for the same purpose in Kashmir.

The government has granted 36 limestone mining leases, 24 gypsum mining leases, and 202 e-auctioned minor mineral blocks, he said.

As many as 8 mining leases have been reserved for J&K public sector undertakings, 6 on private land, 2 qu...