Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat unveiled the foundation stone for the construction work of the 32-metre span double lane bridge on the Tons river near the Virpur post on the Garhi Cantt-Virpur-Ghangoda motorway in the Mussoorie Assembly constituency of Dehradun at a cost of `237.58 lakh and other developmental works on Sunday.
At a programme on Sunday, Rawat averred that the Government is working with sustainable and far-sighted approach. Under increasing population pressure, long term measures are being taken to address the problem of water scarcity in the cities. The Song dam project to be built at a cost of `1100 crore, will provide 24-hour water supply to the entire Dehradun district for 35 years and also save electricity worth `100 crore.
Construction of this project will be completed within record 350 days. In the coming time, 60 per cent population of entire Dehradun district will get gravity based water supply.
Referring to the gas pipeline project, he said that once completed, it will provide gas to entire Dehradun with plans to spread the network also to remote areas of the State in the coming 10-12 years. Referring to zero tolerance for corruption, he said that in the recent past more than sixty people, including senior officials, had been sent to jail in corruption cases. He said that preventing corruption was a collective responsibility. Mussoorie MLA Ganesh Joshi and cantonment board CEO Zakir Hussain were also among those present on the occasion.