Jalandhar gets promised grant

JALANDHAR, June 24: At long last the promise made by former Prime Minister and the present MP from Jalandhar, I. K. Gujral, to the city resi...

JALANDHAR, June 24: At long last the promise made by former Prime Minister and the present MP from Jalandhar, I. K. Gujral, to the city residents has been fulfilled.

The Jalandhar Municipal Corporation has got the promised grant of Rs. ten crore for augmentation of water supply in the city from the state government.

Announcing this to media persons here today, the mayor of the corporation, Suresh Sehgal said that tubewells would be dug up in the water deficient areas of the city to meet the drinking water requirements of the city.

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The augmentation scheme would be managed by the sewerage board. He said that with the funds allocated, atleast a dozen new colonies could be linked to the drinking water supply.

State Minister for Local Bodies, Balramji Das Tandon handed over the draft for Rs. ten crore to the mayor this morning, in Chandigarh.

The mayor said the corporation would also initiate the process of regularising some of the unauthorised colonies in the city by charging 100 per cent development charges from them. There are atleast 72 such colonies in the vicinity of the city.

The augmentation scheme would be completed within a year, the mayor said.