Agnihotri inspects Shahnehar damages

Our Correspondent

Nurpur, August 18

Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri, during his daylong visit to the neighbouring Fatehpur Assembly constituency on Saturday, inspected the damaged portion of the Shahnehar irrigation project.

Accompanied by local MLA Bhiwani Singh Pathania and officials of the Jal Shakti Department (JSD), he directed departmental officers to reconstruct the damaged parts of the project.

The project had been damaged during the monsoons last year.

Agnihotri, who is also the Jal Shakti Minister, said the entire area was fertile and produced good crops. For the convenience of the local farming community, the JSD would restore the damaged parts of the project, for which the state government would provide adequate funds, he added.

Agnihotri inaugurated the lift irrigation water scheme at Thattar-Baldiyan, augmentation of lift water scheme at Rehan-Dehri and the renovation of Kisan Bhawan at Rehan. He also inspected the proposed site of the bus stand at Fatehpur.

The Deputy Chief Minister said the state government would address every problem of the Fatehpur Assembly constituency, adding that the state government was committed to the uniform and equal development of every Assembly segment across the state.

The JSD had, so far, suffered a loss of Rs 350 crore in drinking water supply schemes due to the current monsoons, he said.

Of the 10 guarantees that the Congress had given before the polls, half had been fulfilled, and the remaining would be fulfilled in a phased manner, the Deputy Chief Minister added.

He said a new drinking water scheme had been made so that the public would not face drinking water problems.

Even remote areas of the state had been connected with bus facilities, he added, claiming that the previous BJP-led government had not fulfilled any of its promises during its five-year tenure.

“The BJP government had given only hollow assurances with hollow speeches. When the Congress came to power, the BJP started dreaming of toppling the government. However, its mission flopped badly,” he said.