Chief Minister Harish Rawat warned the district-level officers of all the departments that negligence on the plank of development would not be tolerated while monitoring the progress of the district plan, sector plan, Central plan and Central- aided plan in Pauri on Thursday. Rawat also instructed the district magistrate to speed things up while asserting that he would visit again after two or three months.
Rawat made enquiry into the expenditure of money against the sanctioned Rs 84 crore for the district plan. CM asked the Public Works Department officials to see to it that the work culture in the lower rung of the department improves in two months. Negligence will be not be tolerated, he said, adding that the work should be conducted with transparency and quality. Rawat asked the PWD and forest department officers to work with coordination to remove the obstruction coming in the construction of roads, while stressing that the work should start at the earliest. Rawat sounded annoyed over the performance of the irrigation department, saying a great part of the fund allotted to it was yet to be spent.
He also called for construction of small reservoir to ensure conservation of water and to boost agricultural production. Saying that contaminated water should not be supplied under any circumstances, he instructed the DM to conduct the testing of the drinking water in the lab. Rawat also instructed the DM to conduct inquiry by SDM into the no-water complaint coming from the people of Chaubattakhal and Mundneshwar areas despite the drinking water scheme being implemented there.
MlA Ganesh Godiyal said that the transformer in Chdadi village being damaged, there was no power supply in Chipalghat. Acting on this, CM instructed the electricity department to set the transformer right in 36 hours.