Uttarakhand Government is working on a plan to provide drinking water supply in every household till the year 2022, said the finance and drinking water Minster Prakash Pant while talking to the journalists at State party office on Wednesday. He accepted that problem of water scarcity occurs many parts of the state during summers as water sources are depleting. Pant said that there are 12000 water sources in the State and the State Government wants to conduct a mapping of them and in the first phase mapping of 5000 water sources would be done. Pant informed that there are 91 urban and 859 Peri -urban areas in Uttarakhand. The Minister said that a campaign to create awareness among the masses to preserve and recharge water sources of the State got started on May 9 and would end on June 30. On the grievances of the State Government employees regarding payment of allowances of VII pay commission, the Minister tersely said that the Uttarakhand was among the few states in the country where the VII pay commission was implemented. He said that State Government gave the pending arrears of the VII pay commission and Diwali bonus to the State Government employees.
Prakash Pant was in the state BJP office to listen grievances of people under the Janata Milan programme. It is pertinent to mention here that the programme was not being held for some time. The Minister attributed Tharali assembly bye- elections as the cause of temporary non holding of the programme. On the day large number of people came to the programme with their grievance. The Minister listened the grievances and directed the official concerned to take action.