MLA from Jagraon assembly constituency Sarvjit Kaur Manuke held a review meeting with the officials of the Soil Conservation, Canal and Drainage Department today and instructions were issued that appropriate arrangements should be made to solve the problems of drainage water keeping in mind the rainy season.
During the meeting, the officials of the Soil Conservation Department informed that the major problem of the drains passing through the villages of the constituency is that the slope of the drains towards the drainage side has become high due to which the flow of drainage water is in the opposite direction and due to excess water during rainy days, it overflows and affects the crops of the adjacent fields and there is a big problem of rainwater in Kamal Chowk, Old Grain Market, Old Vegetable Market and many neighborhoods of the city and there is a risk of spreading many terrible diseases.
The officials further said that the embankments of the drains and bridges at many places have also become low and at many places people have illegally occupied the drains, which is a major obstacle in the drainage of rainwater. Taking this matter seriously, MLA Manuke immediately spoke to the Minister of the concerned department, Varinder Goyal, over the phone and discussed the matter and sought approval for removing soil from the drains. The Cabinet Minister assured that approval will be issued on receipt of the case in this regard.
Officials of the Canal Department said that out of the grants that have come due to the efforts of MLA Manuke, the Kokri irrigation canal from Sidhwan Khurd to Galib Kalan under Jagraon constituency is being paved at a cost of Rs 13 crore 62 lakhs and while paving this irrigation canal, the bed of the river is being kept raw, due to which the underground water will also continue to be recharged.
Apart from this, a grant of Rs 1 crore 92 lakh is being provided for the strengthening of the moghas of Sidhwan Kalan and Sidhwan Khurd, Rs 1 crore 60 lakh for the moghas of Malsih and Chiman, Rs 1 crore 9 lakh for the moghas of Ramgarh Bhullar and Rs 1 crore 84 lakh for the moghas of Ghalib Kalan.
Apart from this, the work of renovation of the canal rest house Akhara is going on. MLA Manuke asked the concerned officials to expedite the work of strengthening the moghas and the suyas so that the farmers can be provided with canal water facilities as soon as possible and a project should be made to create a ‘tourism point’ at the rest house Akhara so that people can do photography and pre-wedding shoots etc. on the occasion of weddings. Issuing instructions to the officials of the Drains Department, MLA Manuke said that the farmers should be informed about the instructions to remove sand from the fields and efforts should be made to clean the drains.
On this occasion, Block President Nirbhai Singh Kamalpura, Social Media Incharge Amardeep Singh Ture, SDO Canal Department Pushpinder Singh, Soil Conservation Officer Baljinder Kaur, Sub Divisional Soil Conservation Officer Jasritu Kaur, Eng. Karmapreet Singh JE Drains Department, SDM Amarjit Singh from the office etc. were also present.
