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Kathua : 8 yrs on, check dams on Wajoo nallah await completion 5/11/2015 12:20:23 AM G S Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, May 10 : The department of Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) had started construction of check dams on Wajoo nallah near Khokhayal village in Kathua in 2007, but eight years the construction is far from completion. A source informed Early Times that the construction of check dams on the Wajoo nallah was started by the I&FC department in financial year 2007-08 and had decided the date of completion would be 2009- 10 and the project was estimated to cost Rs 25.85 crore. After nearly eight years, only 50 percent work has been completed. The source said the department concerned had claimed that after three years, all un-irrigated land under the jurisdiction of the new channel would be irrigate. Sarpanch of Khokhayal, Ravinder Kumar, blamed lackadaisical approach of the department for the slow work. "Initially, when the department started taking possession of land for the check dams, the cost of land was very low and the affected farmers were disturbed over the slow pace of work. But after resistance by the farmers, the government reasonably compensated them," he said. He said that after a Kashmir-based contractor stopped work as the government had not paid around Rs 3 crore due to him. Ironically, the department instead of releasing the contractor's money replaced him, as the new contractor happens to be the brother of Minister for Health and Medical Education, Choudhary Lal Singh. A farmer of Pandori, Ram Lal said that in peak summer season most of the cultivation land was deprived of irrigation because there was no other source of irrigation. So the department concerned has assured that the construction work would be completed in time. Chief Engineer of I&FC, HC Jeerath said that so far more than 50 percent work has been done. "Probably, the construction will be completed before the end of December and the farmers would be benefited," he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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