Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that effective arrangements of internal vigilance should be made to stop corruption in construction departments. Special attention should be paid to quality water supply schemes of rural areas.
Chouhan gave these instructions at a Board of Directors' meeting of Madhya Pradesh Jal Nigam here today. Minister for Public Health Engineering Kusum Mehdele and Chief Secretary BP Singh were present at the meeting.
He mentioned that a scheme should be made to prepare local contractors for participating in tender process for projects of construction departments. Water supply charges should be fixed for the villagers under the rural group water supply to enable them to pay easily. Water supply schemes being constructed by Jal Nigam should be monitored constantly and these schemes should be completed within stipulated time frame, he added.
It was informed in the meeting that project implementation units will be increased from 5 to 12 for strengthening under the Jal Nigam.
An amount of Rs 1758.99 crore has been sanctioned for 11 rural group water supply schemes of 1248 villages. Currently project implementation units are functioning in Bhopal, Jabalpur, Indore, Gwalior and Sagar under the corporation. Beside, seven new project implementation units are proposed for Shahdol, Sidhi, Panna, Satna, Damoh, Rajgarh and Jabalpur.
A budget of Rs 1534.45 crore has been sanctioned for the corporation for 2017-18 in the meeting.
Additional Chief Secretary Narmada Valley Development Rajnish Vaishya, Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development RS Julaniya, Principal Secretary Public Health Engineering Manoj Govil, Principal Secretary Urban Administration Malay Shrivastava, Principal Secretary Finance Aniruddha Mukherjee and concerned officers were present in the meeting.