Advisor to Governor Kewal Kumar Sharma on Monday took a thorough review of progress on Srinagar Sewerage Schemes being executed by various departments—directing officials to complete the projects within stipulated deadlines.
Chairing a high levelmeeting here, the Advisor sought the status of the sewerage treatment projectsbeing executed by Lakes and Water Development Authority (LAWDA), UEED, NBCC,SMC and other executing agencies under erstwhile JNNURM.
Vice-chairman LAWDA, P.Ramaswamy, commissioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), Mir Tariq Ali,Chief, ADC Srinagar, Engineer, Urban Development Department, Chief Engineers,NBCC officials, officials from and other senior officers attended the meeting.
Sharmadirected for the early completion of the sewerage network links across thesummer capital—directing the high authorities of executing agencies topersonally monitor the progress on each project and schemes. Sharma asked theassociated departments to work in close coordination and work for achieving settargets within the deadline.
Hesaid that the officials—rather than complaining about schemes and projectsshould come up with an effective mechanism to remove the bottlenecks if any, sothat remaining works are completed at the earliest.
Sharmaopined that officials associated with the executing departments should do some”soul searching”—if projects and schemes weren’t completed well in time. “Thereis some problem. When projects aren’t completed within time,” he said. “Whyshould projects keep going and why should people suffer. The officialsassociated with the executing agencies shouldn’t sleep properly and do somesoul searching to find out the lacunas,” he said.
Officials informed themeeting that the Srinagar City is divided into three zones for laying of thesewerage network. The officials saidthat the Sewerage Scheme of left out areas of Srinagar City Zone I & II hasbeen proposed under JICA. They said thatthe estimated cost of the scheme under the project area Zone I & II ofSrinagar City is Rs 964.48 Cr.
Reviewingthe status of each scheme, the Advisor said that the completion of these projects will go a long way in channeling thesewerage and related things in the capital cities and provide the much-neededrelief to the people. The executing agency NBCC officials told the Advisor thatthe work was stalled due to non-release of funds and if provided both theschemes for Jammu and Srinagar will be completed by September 2019.
TheAdvisor asked the concerned Chief Engineer, UEED, Municipal Commissioner toconstitute a team of officers to monitor the progress of work on the sewerageschemes in Srinagar on weekly basis and address bottlenecks, if any andcomplete the project on fast track basis.