Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal on Wednesday stressed on the need for optimum use of non-conventional energy resources by setting up of solar power plants in the State.
He was speaking at the Engineers’ Day programme organised by the Joint Engineers Organising Committee at the New Circuit House on the occasion of 154th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna the late Dr Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Agrawal also said that construction of roads on time and as per the quality standards leads to faster progress of a State. He commended the engineers for use of modern technology for ensuring supply of safe drinking water in Chhattisgarh.
Agrawal congratulated the engineers on the occasion and said that before the formation of Chhattisgarh, the State was known as an economically backward region. He said that engineers should pay attention towards the future requirements for development of the State. “Keeping in view the conditions such as global warming and climatic change etc, it is necessary to develop water augmentation area so as to arrange for drinking water supply for upcoming generations,” he said.
Agrawal advised the engineers to take inspiration from Dr Visvesvaraya and carry out innovative works with low input cost for the betterment of the future generation. He said that the engineers of the State have glorified the name of Chhattisgarh with their commendable contribution in construction of International Cricket Stadium, Astroturf International Hockey stadium in Raipur and Rajnandgaon.
He asserted that Naya Raipur project has gained so much popularity because of the vision and hard work of engineers. “The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, who is known as ‘Chief Minister of Modern Technology’, has also expressed the desire to visit our new capital project. It is a significant achievement of engineers of the State,” he said.
The Assembly Speaker said that engineers have won the confidence of the public with their contribution in housing sector as well. The execution of the Kamal Vihar scheme has simply mesmerised the people, he said. He appealed to the engineers to keep up the hard work, dedication and honesty in their works for the development of the State.
In the programme, Agrawal felicitated the engineers nominated from each of the organization of Engineers’ Union for their excellent works. On the occasion, the Practicing Engineers Welfare Association conferred the state-level ‘Engineer of The Year’ Award upon Amitabh Sharma of CREDA. Agrawal also announced on the occasion that from now on, engineers of the State will be felicitated every year for their contribution, on September 15 i.e. on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Visvesvaraya.
Special guest ex-Chairman of Chhattisgarh State Service Commission Narendra Singh Bhadoriya, Chief Engineer PWD DK Pradhan, Chief Engineer PHE TJ Kosariya, Chief Engineer Irrigation HR Kutare, Rtd Engineer-in-Chief PHED RN Gupta and Chairman of Organising Committee and Secretary of Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission PN Singh and large number of engineers were also present.