Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: Reacting to J&K administration’s decision to rename PHE as ‘Jal Shakti department’, former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said ‘Can’t improve the quality or availability of clean drinking water so let’s just waste everyone’s time by playing the name change game’.
Taking a jibe at the decision, Abdullah, who is the vice-president of National Conference (NC), said that he is ‘glad to see the administration taking such far reaching decisions that will greatly improve people’s lives’.
”Jal Shakti Department. can’t improve the quality or availability of clean drinking water so let’s just waste everyone’s time by playing the name change game. Glad to see the administration taking such far reaching decisions that will greatly improve people’s lives,” Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
Abdullah also posted the Government order, which read, sanction is hereby accorded to the renaming of Public Health Engineering/Irrigation and Flood Control department as ‘Jal Shakti department’ and its inclusion at Serial No 27-A in the First Schedule of J&K Government Business Rules.
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