Funds not used properly: Jakhar

Abohar, June 10

During his public contact programme at the local Friends Colony, Congress MLA Sunil Jakhar alleged that the funds meant for development works were not being utilised properly.

He said Rs 2.30 crore had been spent to link PUDA Enclave with a sewerage system through the Old Fazilka Road but residents complained that they were still awaiting the disposal of waste water due to technical inefficiency of the executing agency. The civic bodies claimed to have utilised Rs 10 lakh on cleaning the main sewer line on the Arya Nagar Road which linked Thakur Abadi via super-suction machines last year but the pipes were getting blocked again and sewage inundated houses in Sidhu Nagari and other colonies.

The Local Bodies Department had not deployed permanent Executive Officer and Engineer for the local Municipal Council in the past few years even as Abohar has the largest population in the district. It indicates that the state government was not sensitive to the problems which people faced each day, he added.