Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Premchand Aggarwal has sought information about the works being done on multiple motor roads and the works being done to check floods in Rishikesh Assembly constituency during a meeting with PWD and irrigation department officials in Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday. He asked them to complete other ongoing works at the earliest.
During the meeting, the Speaker said that for the last five years, flood control works were being delayed in Rishikesh Assembly constituency and even internal motor roads had not been taken care of.
Taking note of it, he asked them to expedite the works, removing the bottlenecks standing in the way of their implementation. He said that he has set a target to develop Rishikesh as model Assembly constituency while stressing on the cooperation of PWD and irrigation departments. He further said that with rains starting after a few months, the people should be spared the problem of water-logging while asking the department officials to firm up plans much in advance and to execute them in time before the onset of the rainy season.
He said that he would personally visit the internal motor roads from time to time to ensure that the works are completed at the earliest. He at the same time warned the officials against sitting on the projects.
During the meeting, a number of PWD officials, including chief engineer Rajendra Goyal, executive engineer PWD Rishikesh Balraj Mishra and assistant engineers Avnish Chand and BD Saini aside from the irrigation department chief engineer Ajay Verma, Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, executive engineer Project Rishikesh Division Purushottam, Harsh Kumar Katiyar, Distirct Panchayat member Shyampur Devendra Singh Negi were present.