Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: As part of ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’, District Development Council (DDC) Jammu Chairman, Bharat Bhushan Bodhi today kick started the digging for the construction of a new deep tube well at village Rakh Barn thus fulfilling their long pending demand.
Pertinent to mention here that the construction of tube well worth Rs 75 lakh is a part of Rs 7 crore Water Supply Scheme Rakh Barn which will soon cover the shortage of water supply in the area.
Addressing the residents of the village on the occasion, the DDC Chairman, Bharat Bhushan Bodhi said that under the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi led Union Government’s Jal Jeevan Mission every household across the nation will get tap water. He said that it is the exceptional visionary qualities of PM Modi that this Government is primarily focused on providing basic amenities to the common people who have suffered a lot due to the wrong policies of the regimes that ruled the roost for decades.
The DDC Chairman said that keeping up with the PM’s Jal Jeevan Mission and the BJPs commitment to overall development; he is making all possible efforts to provide basic amenities to the people at large especially to those living in the rural areas of Jammu district. He said that clean drinking water is the first and foremost basic necessity after air for the sustenance of life and therefore it is the duty of all those working at the grass roots level to put in efforts on war footing to augment the Prime Minister’s endeavour of providing tap water to every household under the Jal Jeevan Mission.
Bharat Bhushan assured that after completion of this WSS, every household in the vicinity will get tap water and the problem concerning the dearth of potable water will be fully eliminated from the entire belt.
Among those who were present included BDC Kuldeep Raj, Naib Sarpanch, Sudagar Singh, Panch, Ravi Rajan Singh Happy, Kuldeep Singh, AEE PHE, Bhalwal Arun Kapoor and AEE Mechanical Mohinder Singh.