Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 8 (ANI): The House Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly initiated a complete on-spot evaluation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) tasks throughout Udhampur district.
Under the management of Chairman Hasnain Masoodi, a multi-party delegation of distinguished MLAs scrutinised varied water provide schemes following allegations of procedural irregularities.
‘We are going for a spot go to. Our enquiry has two phases. First is assembly the officers, and second is visiting the spot… Only then can we current an goal and truthful report,’ Masood advised ANI.
Earlier in December 2025, it was reported that the Udhampur district was going through a water scarcity after heavy downpours in August 2025 brought on essential injury to the native water provide infrastructure.
The Jal Shakti Department has been grappling with in depth repairs to pipelines and infrastructure constructed beneath its schemes. The floods and rainfall broken 160 of over 200 water provide schemes that have been operational within the district.
Executive Engineer, Jal Shakti Department, Udhampur, Sandeep Gupta, said that of the 160 schemes, 24 have been severely broken. He stated that, because of the influence, work beneath the JJM scheme has been fully halted. He emphasised that the brand new scheme beneath the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) was additionally severely broken.
‘We confronted lots of issues through the interval from August to September… We had about 200 schemes that equipped water. Roughly 160 of them have been broken. Of these, 24 schemes suffered extreme injury, which we’ve got not but been in a position to restore. We have restored 70-80% of the water… The new JJM scheme suffered heavy injury, and its work has been fully halted…’ he stated.
A resident of Darsoo village, Vibhakar Singh, shared that the rainfall and floods brought on critical water points within the village and even washed away the roads.’There are critical water issues in our village. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) venture right here was fully washed away within the rain… The roads in our village have been additionally fully washed away…’ he stated.
Another resident of the identical village, Latif, appealed to the federal government to renew the Jal Jeevan Mission within the village to revive water provide and demanded immediate compensation for flood-related losses.
‘The heavy rains and subsequent flooding that occurred in J&Ok from 26 August to 9 September brought on heavy losses to many authorities schemes and tasks. The Jal Jeevan Mission venture has nonetheless not been began on this village… I attraction to the federal government to begin this scheme as quickly as doable. The losses attributable to the flood ought to be compensated for rapidly. Many roads on this village have been broken. People are going through nice difficulties. I might additionally prefer to attraction to Shivraj Singh Chouhan and J&Ok Minister Javid Ahmad Dar, DC Saloni Rai, and Ranbir Singh Pathania to offer these works particular consideration and prime precedence…’ he said.
The Jal Shakti Department in Udhampur is regularly working to revive water to the affected areas. (ANI)