Rae Bareli water crisis: Prepare action plan, use MPLAD funds, asks Sonia to DM

Pointing out the “serious crises of water for both drinking and irrigation”, which has been brought to her notice “especially in Saraini, Shivgarh and Unchahar areas” of her constituency, Sonia has suggested re-boring and installation of water handpumps. She had added that her MPLAD funds could be used for the purpose.

While Sonia has asked for a plan for fluoride-affected regions, she has asked the DM to take the opinion of public representatives from the region in the next meeting of the District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee, headed by her.

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“Over 13,000 water handpumps in the district have become defunct due to some reason or the other. Then there are 1,344 hamlets, where drinking water has high concentration of fluoride. These problems were placed before Sonia Gandhi during her recent visit, following which she has decided to intervene,” said Vinay Dwivedi, spokesperson of Rae Bareli District Congress Committee.

He added that a few days ago, Dheeraj Srivastava, Sonia’s personal secretary, had also visited the district and asked senior administrative officials to prepare an action plan.

“The district administration has assured that while handpumps will be repaired, mobile transformers will be used to operate tubewells at the block level. At the gram sabha level, solar-powered pumps will be used to supply water,” said Dwivedi.