Urban water supply scheme, rural water supply scheme and electricity supply were reviewed by Dr. Rameshwar Oraon, Minister, Finance Department, Planning and Development Department, Commerce and Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Department, Jharkhand in the Collectorate Auditorium here on Tuesday.
In the review of urban water supply, the Minister made observations regarding the present requirement, actual water supply and gap. In this, it was told by the Administrator, Municipal Council that according to the present population, 4.7 MLD drinking water supply is needed in the city and 3.58 MLD water supply is being done. The difference is 1.12 MLD. A survey plan has been prepared by the World Bank for the drinking water supply of the city for the next 30 years, in which the process of NOC is going on by various departments. This is a state sponsored scheme. At present there are 400 handpumps and 15 water tanks in the city. There are two teams to fix the broken hand pumps of the city. Sufficient power supply is not being done by the Electricity Department due to which there is difficulty in supply of drinking water. Along with this, there is also a need to shift the pipeline to the new Barwatoli. Necessary departmental action was assured regarding the shifting of pipeline by the Minister.
In the review of rural water supply, multi village scheme, single village scheme was reviewed by the Minister under Jal Jeevan Mission. In this, it was directed by the Minister that whatever schemes have been made under drinking water supply, a survey should be done to see how many of them are good and how many are not. If those plans have been handed over to the Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Committee, are those plans still in order? Make a list of such schemes and propose to get them rectified so that provision can be made in the budget for this, funds can be demanded from the government.
Executive Engineer Drinking Water and Sanitation Division, Lohardaga was directed to conduct this survey in a week. Apart from this, instructions were given to present in the form of an updated status report, how many have been built and how many are left in the earlier plan of five chapanals in each panchayat. A complaint was made by the MP's representative about the poor quality of hand tools in the primary school located at Utka, which was directed to be rectified by the Minister.
In the review of power supply, the transmission, distribution, condition of transformers etc. were reviewed by the Minister. Deputy Commissioner Lohardaga proposed to connect 30 villages as solar villages before the minister.
In the meeting, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Waghmare Prasad Krishna, Deputy Development Commissioner Sameera S, MP Representative Ashok Yadav, MLA Representative Nishith Jaiswal, Subdivision Officer Arvind Kumar Lal, City Administrator Municipal Council Lohardaga, Executive Engineer Drinking Water and Sanitation Division Anup Kumar Hansda, Executive Engineer Electricity Division Deepak Khalkho and others were present.