Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday claimed that his government was fast implementing its promise to expand education to the remote areas and let the youth benefit from institutions of higher education at their doorsteps. He said both at school and higher education level the State had witnessed unprecedented growth and infrastructure development during the past four years. Chief Minister was addressing public meetings at Banihal and Neel in Ramban district and Dharmari in Reasi district after inaugurating the classes in the new government degree colleges at Banihal and Dharmari, set up by the government last year. He also laid the foundation stone of a conference hall at Dharmari estimated to cost Rs. 54.60 lakhs and being completed by the year end. Minister for Higher Education, Gulchain Singh Charak, Minister of State for Finance and Revenue, Aijaz Ahmad Khan, MP, Lal Singh and MLA, Molvi Abdur Rashid were also present. The Chief Minister said that education was one of the topmost priority sectors for his government and ever since he assumed the responsibilities of governance in J&K he made it a point to take the fruits of education to the remote and connectivity wise backward pockets of the state. He said areas that were left unattended in terms of opening of schools and colleges were being provided the facility one after the other. Chief Minister said that in the coming three to four years the quality of education in Jammu & Kashmir would touch standards as high as in the educationally developed states of the country and mentioned distant and geographically difficult areas like Leh and Poonch where additional university campuses were set up besides Anantnag, Baramulla, Bhadarwah, Kathua and Udhampur. He said two more university campuses were announced for similarly placed areas of Kargil and Kupwara. These campuses, he said, were in addition to the main two universities of Kashmir and Jammu. He also talked about satellite campuses set up at Kishtwar, Reasi, Doda and Billawar.