Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday maintained that the centuries-old drainage system was gradually crumbling and it was need of the hour to revamp it. For the same, “the Centre should come forward with massive financial assistance to ultimately relieve people from the pangs of water-logging”, he added.
Badal also urged the Commission to impress upon the Centre to send a team of experts on hydrology and drainage to address the problem of water-logging efficaciously, besides revamping the State’s entire drainage system. Realising fully the substantial loss caused to the crops, the Chief Minister said that he personally invited the Commission to visit these areas to keep them abreast with the ground realities and said that the ill effects of the recent floods due to water logging would have future implications for at least one decade.
Badal said that the migration of people from villages on mass scale due to floods was another cause of concern for the State Government and thus he warranted Centre’s immediate attention to help the state in eradicating the problem of water logging so that the people’s confidence could be restored.
“It is never late. Centre should act promptly to save the precious lives of people, their property and cattle from fury of floods,” he added. later talking to the media persons at Jhabelwali, the CM said that the Commission had been enlightened with the hardships faced by the people of area due to water-logging and he hoped that it would certainly help the State to overcome the menace of water-logging.