Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 29: Taranjit Singh Tony, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and District Development Council (DDC) Member Suchetgarh, has labelled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government as the ‘Govt of only False Promises’.
He expressed this in his address during the District Development Council meeting held here today. In the meeting, Chairman and Vice Chairman of DDC Jammu, DC Jammu and other senior officers of various government departments also attended the meeting.
While addressing media persons after the meeting concluded, Taranjit Singh Tony said that he pointed multiple discrepancies in his area due to the carelessness and negligence of the official machinery of the BJP’s proxy rule in Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the significant issue of canal restoration work at village Dharap was brought to the notice of the authorities during the meeting. He demanded that the aforesaid work must be expedited so as to restore the water supply to paddy bowl of J&K or else it will be a great loss of crop as well as loss to farmers and the J&K’s economy.
The DDC member informed that in small rice bowl village falling in the RS Pura area the total amount of cultivated paddy crop amounts to Rs. 250 cr which will get wasted if administration does not instantly initiate corrective measures.
The AAP leader said that he also highlighted the issue of tube well and lift irrigation systems in the area and urged the administration to make all the irrigation systems including the tube wells hundred per cent functional in the area in order to ensure the regular supply of water to the farmers’ paddy fields.
Tony said that the de-silting time table should be revised as per the need of the farmers because de-silting canal properly consumes a lot of time which would have adverse effect on the crop. He warned the Administration that if water supply will not be restored in a week’s time then farmers will come on roads to protest for which the Govt shall be wholly and solely responsible.
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