Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 4: Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Sham Choudhary today convened a meeting of Public Health Engineering (PHE) and Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Departments to review the progress of different schemes in Rajouri and Poonch .
Minister asked the functionaries of twin districts to put in their best to maintain regular supply of water to everyone.
“Priority should be given to those schemes and projects which are held up and require less funding for completion so that people can avail their benefits and prompt public delivery system is maintained”, he maintained .
He asked the concerned to identify those areas where the outreach/scope of lift schemes are minimal and submit a report to the department so that other measures or resources in the shape of tube wells and hand pumps are provided to the people.
Minister directed the officers to achieve the targets within stipulated time period and make full use of available resources so that drinking water is made available to the people.
During the meeting, the Legislators raised various issues pertaining to upgrading of infrastructure of PHE and augmentation of water supply schemes and requested for liberal funding for ongoing schemes for both the districts.
Minister also inspected water supply scheme at Chingus, Rajouri which was recently made fully functional and is currently benefitting 400 households.
Earlier, the Minister was apprised on the status of different ongoing schemes under district plan and central sponsored schemes of twin districts.
The meeting was attended by Vice Chairman of Pahari Advisory Board, Kuldip Raj Gupta, Vice Chairman for OBC, Yashpal Verma, MLA Rajouri,MLA Noshera, MLA Mendhar, MLC, Vibod Gupta.
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