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| I&FC dept buys 2 new dredges from US firm | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR JUNE 25- The State Government has decided to purchase two dredges for flood protection activities costing Rs. 12 crores and agreement to this effect was signed by Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood Control, Kashmir, M. R. Shola, on behalf of the
State Government and President, M/S Ellicott Dredges, USA, Peter Bowe here today.
This is for the third time that M/S Ellicott Dredges is supplying dredges to the State Government. For the first time in 1910, the first agreement with the company was signed followed by another agreement in 1959. The company being a pioneer in dredging equipments is having good business relations with the State for the last hundred years and to keep these relations intact, the President of the company flew all the way from USA to Srinagar to sign the agreement.
It may be recalled here that the Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood
Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din has time and again stressed the need for starting dredging in the river Jhelum and put his all efforts to get dredges of new model purchased in order to start dredging in Jhelum which has not been done for a long now forcing experts to foresee dangers of massive floods in the Valley.
Later, Bowe called on the Minister and discussed latest techniques
in dredging.
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