Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa on Wednesday issued a word of caution to the department’s officers against misuse and wastage of money.
Bajwa, presiding over a review meeting of the department, made it clear to the officers to use Government money or grants in a transparent manner, and the misuse and wastage of money would not be tolerated.
The Minister asked the officers to ensure quality work and strictness should be exercised against the violators. At the same time, he said that all development works must be completed in a time bound phase.
Taking serious note of the reports of the RO systems not working, Minister directed to immediately repair and reinstall the non-functional RO systems on top priority to provide clean drinking water to the people.
He also directed the officials to personally examine the present status of the water tanks by visiting the spot and the repair work of water tanks in poor condition should be done without any delay.
An important decision was taken in the meeting to ensure a receipt of the money collected from the people using government water supply facility and also asked to develop a transparent system to spend the collected money. The Minister also directed to immediately implement this decision.
Bajwa also appealed to the people not to waste and misuse the government water supply facility and complain about the misuse of water at the Toll free number 18001802468.
He also issued directions to the senior officers of the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to complete the goal of providing every home toilet in the state, aimed to be completed by December 31 this year, without any delay.
Clear cut instructions were also issued to monitor the work at the grassroot level to achieve 100 percent results in terms of quality. Department’s secretary Jaspreet Talwar briefed about the targets set by the department for this financial year. She also briefed nine districts have already been declared freedom from open defecation and remaining target would also be completed within set time.