CURATED BY – DHEERAJ KUMAR AHIRWAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Damoh, officials should inspect the villages where water is not reaching, it is very important to ensure availability of drinking water during the scorching heat. Providing water to every village is the first priority of the government, the government is taking important steps in this regard. Officials should regularly visit the field so that the actual situation can be clear. Providing water to every village should be our goal. Special care should be taken to ensure that farmers also get adequate irrigation water and the general public does not face any problem. Instructions to this effect were given by the Minister of State for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Department of the state, Independent Charge Lakhan Patel, during the joint review meeting of Jal Jeevan Mission, Public Health Engineering and Water Resources Department held in the Collectorate hall. Collector Sudhir Kumar Kochar was specially present on this occasion. While talking to the media, the Minister of State said that the main objective of the meeting was to review the irrigation projects and drinking water. Necessary guidelines have been given to the officials about the villages where the Nal Jal Yojana is being operated, somewhere the motor is faulty, somewhere there is a problem with the pipeline, somewhere there is no source. The Minister of State said that whatever arrangements are there, they should be corrected within the time limit, such guidelines have been given to the officials.

The Minister of State said that the irrigation projects are worth about 2500 thousand crores. The review of the people who have not yet received water from those projects has also been done. When will the said work be done and about this, a meeting will be held with the Irrigation Minister, ACS Irrigation and all the ANC and lower officials, the time of which has been decided almost on the next cabinet day i.e. Tuesday.

The Minister of State said that the officials have been instructed to reach there with full preparation, so that we can be aware of the actual situation and we can also tell the farmers by when water will reach the farmers in the village.