The town halls serve twin objectives of office premises of concerned local bodies besides being a facility, a scheme namely “Construction of Town /Community Halls” has been introduced in the Housing sector.  This is in consonance of the recommendations made by the State Finance Commission also for establishment of at-least one town hall per town. This is a need of the hour having propensity of the people living in remote / rural areas to migrate towards cities and towns have resulted in mass migrations with an implication of putting high pressure on civic amenities that are often rendered inadequate. Therefore, towns/ community halls play important role in facilitating get together on the occasion of marriage ceremonies and other important social functions.

                         An allocation of `150.00 lacs is proposed under Annual Plan 2012-13 under the scheme which is to be provided to two Municipal Corporations of Jammu/ Srinagar besides  two Director Urban Local Bodies of Jammu/ Kashmir.