Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 19: To save the soil, the Modi led Government at Centre is focusing on five main things, said former Minister and senior BJP leader, Sukhnandan Kumar, citing efforts to make the soil chemical free, to save organisms that live in the soil, to maintain soil moisture, to increase the availability of water, to remove the damage that is happening to the soil due to less groundwater, and to stop the continuous erosion of soil due to the reduction of forests.
The villagers earlier lacked information about the type of soil, deficiency in soil and how much water is there, Sukhnandan Kumar said on Monday after starting the work on 700 metre drain at Jammu Municipal Corporation’s Ward Number 61, near K C Law College in presence of JMC Mayor, Chander Mohan Gupta, costing Rs 240 lakhs in Jammu North constituency.
Besides, Mayor, the Executive Engineer, JMC Ajay Gupta, corporator, Mahinder Kumar, BJYM district president, Deepak Pandey, Rural Jammu, Ex Sarpanch, Raj Kumar Trilokpur and prominent people of adjoining areas were present on the spot.
In his address Choudhary Sukhnandan, appreciated the efforts made by JMC in making Jammu city clean. “Our Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta has always visited personally to those areas which need special attention and always delivered on spot directions for the construction of lanes and drains so that the public doesn’t face any trouble,” Sukhnandan appreciated.
Over the last eight years, the Swachh Bharat Mission has reached all corners of the country and has changed the lives of countless citizens with its ‘people first’ focus. The Mission revolutionized the sanitation space in urban India, by providing 100% access to sanitation facilities in urban India. Under it, over 70 lakh households, community and public toilets have been built, thus providing safe and dignified sanitation solutions for all.
The former BJP Minister said, “The Mission has been able to bring about a marked difference in the lives of sanitation workers and informal waste workers with over 5.5 lakh sanitation workers linked to social welfare schemes. The uninterrupted services by frontline sanitation workers played a key role in ensuring the safety of urban India during Covid-19 pandemic.”
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