Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 11: Eleven MLAs from district Jammu and Vijaypur in Samba in a meeting with Commissioner/ Secretary PHE, I&FC and concerned Chief Engineers and others discussed the issues related to drinking water and irrigation with the concerned officers.
The meeting with the Dr Pawan Kotwal, Secretary PHE, I&FC was held at the PWD Guest House Gandhi Nagar to address the issues related to their respective constituencies in Jammu and Samba district the other day.
The MLAs who participated in the meeting included, Kamal Arora from Bishnah, Sukhnandan Choudhary from Marh, Kavinder Gupta from Gandhi Naqar, Chander Parkash Ganga from Vijaypur, Dr Gagan Bhagat from RS Pura, Bali Bhagat from Raipur – Domana, Sham Choudhary from Suchetgarh, Rajesh Gupta from Jammu East, Sat Sharma (CA) from Jammu West, Rajeev Sharma from Akhnoor and Dr Krishan Lal from Chhamb.
Chief Engineer, l&FC Jammu H C Jerath, SushiI Aima, Chief Engineer, PHE Jammu along with Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers of the PHE, I&FC Department of Jammu District participated in the meeting.
MLAs put forth the demands of their respective constituencies besides bringing in the notice of the department the various issues pertaining to these departments and gave valuable suggestions regarding effective management of the field staff, proper co-ordination among the Civil and Mechanical wings, provision of standby Machinery at all pumping stations, maintenance and prompt plugging of leakages, provision for special electric feeders for PHE pumping stations, imparting technical training to Mechanical staff engaged for running of machinery, commissioning of ongoing schemes on priority instead of taking new schemes, installing safety devices at pumping stations, providing adequate T&P to the field staff and providing adequate funds for clearing liabitity on account of tankers and silt clearance.
The MLAs demanded for taking up on priority the flood protection works and making functional all the defunct lift irrigation schemes.
Dr Kotwal extended gratitude to the MLAs for their valuable suggestions and issued necessary directions to the Chief Engineers to co-ordinate with the MLAs while framing the plan activities. He further directed the Executive Engineers to conduct joint tours of the constituencies along with the concerned MLAs and take necessary action for mitigating the problems of the public.
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