Hundreds of hand pumps out of service across Rajouri district, people facing problems.The Administration started repairing 100 hand pumps.

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI
SHYAM SOOD
RAJOURI, MAY 09:--With a sharp increase in mercury People in many areas across the Rajouri district are dependent on hand pumps due to defunct water supply schemes and water supply through pipes after a gap of 2-3 days.
Due to the heavy rush at hand pumps, in most of the areas hand pumps have become technically non-functional and the concerned authoritie’s (Jal Shakti department) lackadaisical attitude in the repairing of defunct hand pumps has added more problems to people’s lives when there is a sharp increase in the mercury.
In the month of February, Romesh Chander, Sarpanch of Deeing Halqa in Nowshera & Head Master of the government middle school in a written complaint had informed the Executive Engineer, PHE Nowshera about the defunct hand pump at the government middle school at Deeing.
His application was forwarded to the concerned AEE on 11/2/2022, but to date nothing has been done in this matter.
Similarly, the people of Block Seri (Nowshera) through elected members of Mangla Mata, Block Chairman of Seri in the month of February had approached the Additional DC (Nowshera) with a written complaint about the defunct hand pump near the BDO office.
But this complaint was also not attended by the concerned department to date.
A similar complaint was made by the people of Dabbar in the month of March for the release of funds for the repairing of defunct pump claiming that people are facing many problems as for as drinking water is concerned.
In this case also the people of Dabbar still waiting for any response from the Jal Shakti department officials.
A hand pump in the vicinity of Bholi Mata Mandir Danidhar (Rajouri township) which was a source of safe drinking water for commuters & hundreds of souls living in the area, is non-functional for the last more than 20 days.
But despite several approaches to the concerned authorities, nothing has been done in this matter.
In this case also the people of Dabbar are still waiting for any response from the Jal Shakti department officials.
Following several complaints lodged with Vikas Kundal during public grievances redressal camps, he directed the Chief Planning Officer (CPO) ,Mohd Khurshid to review the progress regarding the repair of defunct hand pumps across the district through a virtual mode.
On Monday CPO reviewed the status of ongoing repair work and the progress achieved in this regard as of now wherein the concerned officers were briefed about the same.
”A list of hundred defunct hand pumps has been received and the repair work on these hand pumps was in progress,” said CPO
CPO admitted that there are a number of hand pumps in the district, which need immediate repair to provide drinking water facilities to the general public during scorching summers.