JAMMU:
A Jammu and Kashmir BJP minister today said the artificial lake project in Jammu will be constructed as per the plan and will not be abandoned.
“The Lake project will not be abandoned,” BJP minister Sukhnandan Chowdhary, replying to a question, told reporters at BJP headquarters here.
Earlier, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had hinted of shelving the lake project on Tawi in Jammu terming it as “not feasible”.
“The lake will be constructed as per the plan and it would not only be used for recreational purposes, but also the water will be used for irrigation of the villages at the tail end of the Ranbir Canal,” the minister said.
“The project of the construction of the artificial lake over river Tawi in Jammu has not been shelved, it will be constructed as per the plan,” said the state Minister for Public Health and Engineering and Irrigation.
Chowdhary said he was in Delhi a day ago and had discussed the issue with Union Minister for Water Resources Uma Bharati who had assured full cooperation of her department for the completion of the project.
Accusing the opposition of making a mountain out of a molehill, the minister said that no proposal of shelving the lake project was ever discussed.
“Nobody ever said that the lake project would be cancelled, the chief minister had just said that the auxiliary work on the lake was not viable as envisioned by the previous Government,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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