Encroachment on tawi to be taken seriously: Govt

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The government today announced that the encroachments around the Tawi river bank will be cleared to make way for an ambitious lake project.
Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh said this in the Legislative Council while responding to a supplementary question asked by PDP MLC Surinder Choudhary.
“National Conference and Congress people (leaders) are responsible for the filth (referring to encroachments) on the Tawi riverbed. They facilitated the encroachments along the riverbed which have severely affected the Tawi beautification and preservation project,” said Choudhary, demanding a strict action against the land encroachers.
Nirmal Singh said, “Howsoever powerful the earlier regimes might have been or the influence they had upon the encroachers, none will be spared and all illegal encroachments will be removed to facilitate beautification of the Tawi river.”
Earlier, responding to a question of BJP MLC Ashok Khajuria regarding the filth and garbage from various nullahs flowing into the river, Nirmal Singh said cluster sewerage treatment plants (STPs) were being set up in different areas to clear waste and slush from the nullahs.
He said 10 nullahs falling on the right bank of the Tawi river were being treated at the STP at Bhagwati Nahar under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
Different supplementaries on the Tawi river beautification, its development on the Sabarmati pattern and cleaning its water from were raised by BJP MLC Ramesh Arora and Vibodh Gupta. The Deputy Chief Minister assured them that comprehensive policies were being adopted by the government for it.
Regarding fixed a deadline for the completion of the artificial lake project on the river, the Deputy Chief Minister said the project was under implementation with the Public Health and Engineering and Irrigation and Flood Control Departments.
“The timeline for the completion of the design and the construction of a barrage across the river at Belicharana is June, 2017,” said Nirmal Singh.

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