Water crisis, payment of dues to farmers dominate.
Uttarakhand
Dehradun, June 9 The issue of water scarcity and payment of pending dues to farmers by the sugar mills dominated question hour on the second day of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly today.
Raising the water scarcity issue being faced in Tehri, Independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Dhanolti Preetam Singh Panwar demanded to know what the government was doing to tackle the problem in Tehri.
In his reply, Uttarakhand Water Resource Minister Prakash Pant said the government was tackling the problem by coming up with various schemes such as water lifting and gravity charged schemes.
“Around four pumping schemes such as the Rs 15-crore Anand chowk scheme and the Rs 800-lakh (Sago Gadhera) scheme have been approved for tackling water scarcity in Tehri,” he said.
To another supplementary raised by Congress MLA Govind Singh Kunjwal regarding the number of lifting schemes and gravity based water supply schemes in Uttarakhand, the minister said around 110 schemes costing Rs 913.42 crore was under construction.
He said the government also launched an exercise to map water sources in the scheme.
The issue of payment of dues to the farmers by the sugar mills was raised both by BJP MLAs Deshraj Karnwal, Harbhajan Singh Cheema and Congress MLA Qazi Nizamuddin.