JAMMU: Minister for Jal Shakti, Javed Ahmad Rana, today informed the House that all areas in Srinagar have been covered and the people are being supplied with scheduled portable water supply by the department.
The Minister was responding to a question from legislator, Shamima Firdous.
The Minister said that the government is committed to facilitating the supply of essential services to the people and ensuring the timely repairing of defunct water supply schemes.
He maintained that no water supply pipeline is defunct in Srinagar city and whenever any distribution line gets damaged, the same is restored under stage contracts and the damaged pipelines beyond repair are replaced by new pipelines properly.
The Minister said that the department is providing sufficient potable water supply as per the schedule of existing water treatment plants and currently there is no area uncovered.
MLA, Mubarak Gul, also raised supplementary questions on the question.
Replying to another question raised by MLA Reyaz Ahmad Khan, the Minister said that, PHE works are being executed by PHE Division Bijbehara while irrigation works are being looked after by Irrigation Division Anantnag and flood-related works are being executed by the Flood Control Division Anantnag for Shangus.
The Minister said that there is no requirement for creating these facilities separately for Shangus as of now. He assured that the government is committed to provide all basic facilities to the people in all far-flung areas.
