Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: Former Minister and BJP senior leader Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar today claimed that the achievements under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) are mere eyewash and it is not development but a case of complete mis-governance.
Addressing a press conference, BJP leader said the time when people are being supplied with drinking water through taps, a huge population in many districts of J&K are deprived of good road connectivity and blacktopping of many roads are still pending.
“With an aim of providing clean drinking water to every household in India, the Government of India launched Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) around 4 years back. This centrally sponsored scheme was formally launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th August 2019. The aim of JJM is to provide ‘Functional Household Tap Connections’ (FHTC) to every rural household in India by 2024. The Jal Jeevan Mission -JJM is aimed at creating a people’s movement – Jan Andolan for water. But at the same time, lack coordination between various Govt organisations and engineering wings while executing JJM projects in J&K there is lots of chaos and confusion,” he said.
The former Minister also alleged that there is a major scam in lying of water pipes as the digging work is done mechanically whereas the PHE Department gets the money for manual digging so that the roads are not damaged fully. It needs thorough probe that why the JCB and mechanically equipments have been deployed to dig the roads everywhere for water laying pipes and demanded strict action against officers for inconvenience to general public.
“I am hopeful that Lt Governor Manoj Sinha will take a serious notice of it and issue strict instructions to the administration to have coordination so that the general masses don’t suffer as this has resulted in complete chaos and confusion,” he asserted.
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