J&K/RAJOURI (The Stellar News)Anil Bhardwaj: The Deputy Commissioner Rajouri, Rajesh K Shavan today discussed the strategy for the effective conservation and management of water resources in the district here in a meeting with the concerned officers here in the Conference Hall of the DDC office Complex.Among the others, ADDC, Pawan Kumar; ADC Rajouri, Sachin Dev Singh; DFO Rajouri, Dr Arshdeep Singh; DFO Nowshera, Suresh Manda; Dy DEO, Parveen Akhter; DSEO, Bilal Rashid Mir; CAO, Mahesh Verma; ACD, Sushil Khajuria; DPO, Chander Kant Bhagat; CAO, Najma Azmeen; WWO, Dr Anum Mirza; Administrator OSC, Nitu Sharma; Project Officer DUDA, Kavita besides other concerned officers attended the meeting.A discussion concerning the construction of water harvesting structures, conservation/rejuvenation of traditional water bodies, plantation drives and constitution of water conservation cell was held threadbare in the meeting.The Deputy Commissioner while speaking during the meeting said that water is an invaluable gift of nature and every citizen of the district must make collective efforts for its conservation.The Deputy Commissioner asked the concerned officers to spread the message of water conservation to the public especially the womenfolk in the rural areas as women are the most sufferers in times of water scarcity.
The Deputy Commissioner directed the Chief Accounts Officer to set up a special water conservation cell exclusively for the ladies in the DC office within two days and designate 20 ladies as the nodal officers of the cell.The Deputy Commissioner also directed for the registration of maximum women including ladies sarpanches, punches and all the lady employees of the district within two weeks. The women would discuss issues related to water conservation and other issues related to them.
To meet the scarcity of drinking water in the district, the Deputy Commissioner informed that the District Administration has decided to install 600 new handpumps in the district and the same would be installed in consultation with the DDC members and BDC Chairpersons.The Deputy Commissioner also informed that the work on repairing the old hand pumps is under progress and several defunct handpumps have been repaired in the district as of now and concrete measures are being taken to repair all the defunct handpumps in the district to mitigate the sufferings of the common masses.
The Deputy Commissioner also directed the concerned officers to generate mass awareness among the common masses about several water conservation-related works being carried out in their areas and also keep a close eye on the progress of the works.The Deputy Commissioner also directed the concerned officers to conduct a village wise survey and identify the water resources where the work of repair, restoration and rejuvenation of water resources is to be executed so that they can be repaired and renovated in a phased manner.The concerned officers from the Forest and IWMP have been directed to carry out massive plantation drives along with the water resources in the rural areas. The Assistant Commissioner Development has been directed to identify 5000 works related to water conservation in the district and immediately start the work on them after identification.
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Anil Bhardwaj
