Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 10 (ANI): The Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir is going through a scarcity of water after the heavy downpour adopted by floods in August led to important injury to the native water provide infrastructure. The Jal Shakti Department has been grappling with in depth repairs to pipelines and infrastutcure constructed below 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, acknowledged that out of these 160 schemes, 24 suffered extreme injury. He stated that because of the impression, the work of the JJM scheme has been utterly halted. He underlined that the brand new scheme below Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) suffered extreme injury as properly.
‘We confronted a whole lot of issues throughout 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 have now 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 utterly halted…’ he stated.
A resident of Darsoo village, Vibhakar Singh, shared that the rainfall and floods triggered severe water points within the village and even washed away the roads.
‘There are severe water issues in our village. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) challenge right here was utterly washed away within the rain… The roads in our village have been additionally utterly washed away…’ he stated.
Another resident of the identical village, Latif, appealed to the federal government to restart the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme within the village to revive water and demanded fast compensation for the losses brought on by the floods.
‘The heavy rains and subsequent flooding that occurred in J&Ok from 26 August to 9 September triggered heavy losses to many authorities schemes and tasks. The Jal Jeevan Mission challenge has nonetheless not been began on this village… I attraction to the federal government to begin this scheme as quickly as doable. The losses brought on by the flood needs to be compensated for shortly. Many roads on this village have been broken. People are going through nice difficulties. I’d additionally wish to attraction to Shivraj Singh Chouhan and J&Ok Minister Javid Ahmad Dar, DC Saloni Rai, and Ranbir Singh Pathania to provide these works particular consideration and prime precedence…’ he acknowledged.
The Jal Shakti Department of Udhampur is consistently placing efforts to revive water within the affected areas. (ANI)