Reiterating his firm resolve to make holy ‘Kali Bein’ completely pollution free, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked his Principal Secretary to personally monitor the ongoing works in Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Jalandhar districts for checking the flow of contaminated water in the bein.
Badal, presiding over a high level meeting to review the pace of work for cleaning Kali Bein at his residence on late Tuesday evening, asked the officers to expedite the process of work by removing all bottlenecks in the matter.He asked his Principal Secretary SK Sandhu to personally monitor the ongoing operations so as to ensure zero discharge of waste water in this holy bein.
Badal categorically said that this holy bein has a lot of significance in the Sikh history due to which it was highly revered by the people adding that the state government was duty bound to clean it at the earliest.Chief Minister also took stock of the progress work of the construction of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in Bholath, Dasuya, Begowal, Sham Chaurasi, Tanda, Sultanpur lodhi and Kapurthala towns through which this bein crosses.
He also asked the officials of the Punjab State Power Corporation limited to speed up the process of issuing power connections for pumping out the waste water from village ponds, so as to utilise them for the irrigational purposes.Badal also asked the Deputy Commissioners of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala to regularly submit progress report regarding ongoing work so that the work could be efficaciously supervised.