State Irrigation Minister Yashpal Arya chaired a review meeting of officials of his department at Yamuna Colony office on Monday.
He asked the officials to work in tandem to ensure timely completion of the pending projects. Assessing a district wise progress of different works the Irrigation Minister said that work on those projects should immediately start for whom the budget is released. He said that reminders should be sent to the departments concerned for which the budget from the Central Government is to be received.
The minister cautioned against releasing tenders of the works for which budget is yet to be sanctioned. The department officers told the minister that projects for repairing the canals, buildings and guest houses in Dehradun, Tarai area and mountainous regions is sent to the government and the budget for them is yet to be sanctioned. Arya immediately asked the Secretary irrigation M H Khan to look in the matter.
The senior officials informed the minister about the status of the budget of different projects. He was told that out of sanctioned Rs10056.390 lakh under NABARD Rs7557.26 lakh are spent till October this year. Similarly under the general budget provision an amount of Rs669.91 lakh was sanctioned out of which the department had spent Rs497 lakh till month of October.
In the SPA flood works a budget of Rs2685.26 was sanctioned for the year and the department was able to spent Rs1401.89 lakh till the month of October. Arya expressed his strong displeasure on the zero progress in the SPSP and TSP projects and asked the officials to apprise him of the problems they are facing on this front.
The meeting was attended Irrigation secretary M H Khan, additional irrigation secretary Kishan Nath, Chief engineer/ HOD B K Tamta and other officers.