DM Pauri Sushi Kumar asked the district level officers of depts to address people’s complaints of Chakisain tehsil left unsolved during the Tehsil Diwas held in Chakisain tehsil on Tuesday. He sounded annoyed over the absence of the district chief education officer and the executive engineer Jal Santhan and asked them to explain their absence. Besides, he instructed DPRO to suspend village panchayat officer of Naogaon gram panchayat Basant lal for absence and negligence of work.
Over a dozen complaints were filed by the people of the area during the Tehsil Diwas held on the first Tuesday of every month. The complaints mostly related to compensation given against the land acquired for construction of motor roads, drinking water, non- payment of MNERAGA wages and steps to minimize landslide- spawned damages. Residents from several villages like Koti, Daula and Majali complained of not being yet provided with the compensation for the land acquired for road construction project. In response, the DM instructed the PWD officers to act on it immediately. Matters related to shortage of teacher and water scarcity due to damaged pipe lines were raised too by women.
DM asked the revenue, Jal Sansthan and forest department to make a joint survey of the Nanghat drinking water scheme and expressed unhappiness over onging sauchalaya work in gram panchayat. Among others present were SDM Thallisain Maya Dutt Joshi and DPRO M M Khan.