Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 15: More than eight hundred water supply schemes costing Rs. 1189 crore are under execution in Jammu province.
This was disclosed in a review meeting of PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control sectors chaired by Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din here today.
The meeting was told that 826 water supply schemes under National Rural Drinking Water Programme are in various stages of execution in Jammu province costing Rs. 1189 crore.
The meeting was told that 692 hand pumps were drilled in the province till November, 2012. Additionally, 322 schools were covered under drinking water supply during the year, the meeting was told.
Addressing the meeting, the Minister impressed upon engineers to avoid cost overrun of schemes by sticking to timeline of schemes. He also directed blacklisting of contractors who fail to complete the works within the scheduled timeline.
Mr. Taj directed the head of every division to visit the respective areas and personally supervise the estimates and execution of schemes. He also asked them for preparing a database of all the schemes in operation in the State.
The Minister also asked the engineers to make good use of the geological atlas developed by the department so that exploration of sub surface and groundwater becomes easy.
In a separate review meeting of Irrigation & Flood Control Departments, Mr Taj asked the engineers to undertake cleaning of canals on priority basis so that the water reaches tail ends. He asked them to improve the distributory network of canals in view of the fact that additional 500 cusecs of water is available for irrigation purposes this year.
Chief Engineer, PHE, Jammu, Ashwani Sharma, Chief Engineer, Rawi Tawi Irrigation Canal, A. K. Badyal, other senior engineers and officers were present in these meetings.
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