Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 2: Minister for Planning, Development, Labour and Employment, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra today set a deadline of 15th March this year for completion of Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) which is part of the mega sewerage project currently under execution in Jammu city at an overall cost of Rs 108.31 crore.
During his extensive inspection of the project at various segments this afternoon at Bhagwati Nagar here, the Minister asked the executing agency to undertake extensive testing of the sewerage network and initiate house connections by March 31. The STP is being constructed at a cost of Rs 28.61 crore with Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance.
The Minister was accompanied by the Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Reconstruction Agency Saurab Bhagat and other senior officers and engineers.
The CEO apprised the Minister about the salient features of the mega project, having 146 kilometer sewer network of which 106 kilometers have already been laid. He was told that house connection survey work is presently under progress and house connections will be provided to all households in phased manner within the project area free of cost.
The Minister emphasized the need for expediting work on the entire project. The purpose of such schemes, he said, is to improve the hygiene in the city and to facilitate people in a big way. He said that public utility schemes assume greater significance particularly in a city like Jammu that is being thronged by over ten million Vaishno Devi pilgrims besides Kashmir bound tourists and Amarnath Yatris.
The Minister laid stress on the quality of work and directed that quality standards of the project be maintained and monitored by the senior functionaries of the Agency.
Director Tanche III Naresh K. Langeh, Director Safeguard Vinod Sharma, Project Manager J. G. Mengi, Dy. Project Managers, Dr Sanjeev Chadha, S K Sethi, Anil Pandoi and other officers of ERA also accompanied the Minister.
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