Water action plan in doldrums

CLOUDS OF uncertainty are hovering over the much-hyped plan of the State government for water conservation. The engineers of the irrigation department, along with the municipal corporation, were to take part in the three day training camp at water testing training centre in Lucknow but the plan to train the engineers has been suspended due to paucity of funds.

CLOUDS OF uncertainty are hovering over the much-hyped plan of the State government for water conservation. The engineers of the irrigation department, along with the municipal corporation, were to take part in the three day training camp at water testing training centre in Lucknow but the plan to train the engineers has been suspended due to paucity of funds.

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Sources said the chief engineer, small irrigation RA Jureen had faxed a circular to the district magistrate in which he had said that the proposal for imparting training to engineers in water conservation and under ground water recharge action plan had been suspended as the required funds were not sanctioned by the government.

It is worthy to note that the government had issued an order in December 2004 for action plan for conservation of water and underground water.

According to the directive, the district officials had to submit their action plan by July 2005 for designing a long-term action plan for water conservation.

However, after 18 months of submission of the project report the State government has failed to chalk out any action plan for water conservation in any district in the state.

Sources claimed that in view of the decreasing level of underground water, the government had sought the action plan by April 30 but due to suspension of the training programme, the future of the much hyped project is hanging in balance.