phed: Tubewell, Handpump Target Misses Deadline, Phed Faces Criticism | Jaipur News

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Jaipur: The PHED has earned flak over non-completion of setting up of tubewells and handpumps announced in last year’s budget. PHED minister Mahesh Joshi said the tubewells would be completed by April-May this year. The chief minister in last year’s budget had announced 40 handpumps and 10 tubewells in each of the 200 assembly segments. The minister said in compliance with this announcement, proposals for installation of 1,158 tubewells were received, out of which 1,007 approvals had been issued, 98 new approvals had been received and 53 are under process. , out of which 5,600 were approved and 31 handpump proposals were pending in the chief engineer’s office. He informed that out of 5,600 approved handpumps, 2,376 had been completed. Opposition leader Gulab Chand Kataria and speaker CP Joshi said these tubewells were sanctioned for the summer months of the previous year and the minister said these will be done April-May this year. He said the announcement was made for relief to people last year but did not get it. The minister then assured that all the tubewells approved in the budget year 2021-22 would be made operational by April-May. Speaker CP Joshi said the sanction for the tubewells announced last year got sanctioned on March 3 this year which denied people the benefit.

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