Rajouri: A well dug under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in Narian village of Rajouri is lying unused due to want of installation of water lifting pump and allied electric equipment.
The work for the construction of the well and tank at Khatwal Mohalla of Narian Panchayat in Rajouri was taken up in 2011-12 under the NRDWP.
The work was completed in 2014-15.
However, installation of a water lifting pump and allied electric equipment at this station has been awaited for the past eight years with both Civil Wing and Mechanical Wing of Jal Shakti Department (Jal Jeevan Mission) blaming one another for the failure to get the remaining work completed.
Locals fear incompletion of this important water supply scheme, which was aimed to boost the existing water supply schemes in the area and provide drinking water supply to the households of this Panchayat located at the boundary of Rajouri and Nowshera sub divisions in Rajouri district.
A delegation of locals headed by Sarpanch Narian Panchayat Jagmohan Kour met the Executive Engineer of the Jal Shakti Department, Civil Division, Nowshera on Friday and raised the issue of the failure of the department to complete this important scheme for the past more than a decade.
“This is a gross failure of the department. The Mechanical Department has not done its work or the Civil Department has not done and the people are suffering. We have been waiting for the water supply scheme to get completed since 2014-15 when the well was dug,” Kour said.
She said that for the past 9 years installation of a water pumping station and allied electrical equipment like a transformer were awaited and there seemed to be no ray of hope for the locals.
“We are disheartened as the concerned officials told us that the scheme under which the work was taken up has been closed,” Kour said.
Executive Engineer Jal Shakti Department, Nowshera Civil Division, Vipan Kumar told Greater Kashmir that the department was looking into the matter and efforts were being made to get the issue resolved.