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| 85% water schemes under NRDWP fail to meet deadline | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27: The alleged casual approach of the Jal Shakti Department has led to over 85 percent of water schemes under National Rural Drinking Water Programme facing time overrun in their completion.
According to the details available with Early Times the delay has led to the cost escalation putting extra burden on the exchequer. Sources said that the delay has defeated the very purpose of the schemes under National Rural Drinking Water Programme, which was launched as a flagship programme for providing safe drinking water to the rural population on a sustainable basis. “Delay in their timely completion has deprived the targeted population of the desired benefits to boost their agriculture production,” they added.
Sources said that as the programme guidelines have been violated due to delay in execution.
“Out of 950 schemes under execution during 2013-18 in fourteen divisions only 150 schemes were completed on time while remaining schemes which were around 85 per cent could not be completed and the delay in completion ranged from one to twelve years,” they said adding that the delay was in the range of one to three years in 400 schemes, four to six years in 250 schemes and seven to nine years in 110 schemes.
They said that the expenditure of over Rs 100 crore was incurred against the cost escalation in respect of hundreds of schemes. Astonishingly, the department attributed the cost escalation to meager funding by the government and now it has been reported that the incomplete schemes have been taken up under languishing projects. |
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