DC Hazaribagh Ravishankar Shukla took part in a meeting called specially to discuss on the drinking water crisis in Ichak block of Hazaribagh on Wednesday. In this meeting elected people’s representatives of every panchayat of the block were present along with the block officials.
Addressing the gathering DC Shukla said that district administration is vigilant on water crisis and special arrangements have been made to provide water to the denizens. Commenting on the demands of handpumps made by people’s representative he said that it should be yours responsibility to select the site of these new hand-pumps so that more and more people can get benefited. Talking on water conservation he said that extracting underground water is not a permanent solution so everyone will have to work for water conservation. He advised construction of pits near hand-pumps so that extra or waste water could go back inside the ground.
The block officials noted the demands made by people representatives and assured that soon some new hand-pumps will be given in their areas. Regarding non working hand-pumps they said that special teams are on job and within a week complaints will be entertained.