JAMMU: BJP State Executive Member & Corporator Raj Kumar, State Vice President BJP Mahilla Morcha & Corporator Neena Gupta, State Vice President BJP Youth Adv. Ishant Gupta, District Secretary BJP Jammu Balwan Singh, Gandhinagar Mandal Secretary BJP Rajinder Mehta, BJP Ward President Om Parkash, Ward President BJP Mahilla Morcha Poonam Gupta today called upon XEN PHE Civil Jammu South JP Singh and held a meeting at Panch Mandir Sector 2 Ward No. 50 Channi Himmat followed by tour in the areas of Ward No. 50 & 51 to check on spot leakage points, tube wells and proposed sites for construction of new tube wells at Panch Manch Mandir and Sector 1A Near Wave Mall Thanger.
During a meeting, the local residents apprised the officials of PHE about the major problems being faced by them due to less supply of water, irregular supply of water, supply of dirty water not suitable for health, leakage of pipes and other issues. Neena Gupta said that Ward No. 50 comprises of seven sectors from sector 1 to sector 7. She said that there is an acute shortage of water supply at all the sectors of her ward. She urge the officials to provide the complete supply of water to the residents of her ward by taking necessary and immediate steps to make properly function all the tube wells, to repair the leakage points, to construct new tube well at a site proposed by her at Panch Mandir and also to take necessary steps for the regular supply of water. She further added that the PHE Station near Power House Channi Himmat is also not in operation and urge them to take steps for its use in public interest.
Corporator Raj Kumar said that they have not received proper supply from the main at Narwal which is the biggest problem of shortage of water at Channi Himmat. He has taken the officials to the tube well near 12 Nalkey, tube well near Higher Secondary and Mohalla Darian, Sangh and apprise them about the present situation of tube wells and leakage points in the various mohallas of his ward and urge them to take necessary and immediate steps so that the residents will start getting regular supply of water. He further added that the supply from tube well at Matoo Colony is diverted to other areas. He also proposed a new site at Sector 1A near Wave Mall Thanger for the construction of new tube well.
Corportor and the residents who attend meeting thanked JP Singh to heard them very patiently and took immediate steps which he deemed fit to do on the spot for addressing their grievances and also direct his officials to take every possible step for the supply water keeping in view the rise in temperature day by day. Prominent who present were Ex-Corporator Parveen Gupta, AEE PHE Sanjeev Gupta, Prof. Bhola Nath Sharma, Prof. H.C. Vaid, Satish Gupta, Davinder Gupta, KS Jamwal, Jagdish Bhagat, other officials of PHE Department and a large number of locals.