In view of soaring temperature and prevailing drought-like situation in Chhattisgarh, leader of Congress legislature party (ClP) TS Singhdeo on Monday advised state’s BJP government to undertake a special drive for repairing the dam gates, canals, stop dams and anicut before monsoon season so that water could be saved.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister Raman Singh, Singhdeo expressed concern over the rising water scarcity in the state and said that rivers and ponds are continuously drying up. The water reserve in dams has also reached to an alarming proportion.
“Twenty-five out of twenty-seven districts in the state are facing drought. Conditions in Balod, Bemetara, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha and Balrampur districts are severe. The water level is continuously going down,” Singhdeo said. According to Singhdeo, people living in urban areas are equally hit by water problem and at several places, people are staging protests. Rs Rs Water shortage is a natural problem but its solution can be found through better means of water-storage’’, he pointed out.
“It has been noted that the gates of dams, anicut, stop-dams are not well managed due to which water leaks out making it difficult to store it,” he said.
Singhdeo demanded that state government should undertake up the special drive for repairing dam gates, anicuts, check dams.