Gujarat CM dedicates Kadana-based bulk water supply scheme to people of Dahod

Dahod, 17 October 2014

Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today reiterated Gujarat Government’s commitment to take up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign as a movement, ensuring every home in Gujarat has a toilet by the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on 2019.

Inaugurating the Rs.127-crore Dahod bulk drinking water supply scheme, drawing water from Kadana Dam with help of 78-km long pipeline, she said that her government was also concerned about providing drinking water to every city, town and village, as well as establishing law-and-order in the state like converting border outposts into police stations.

She said that similar drinking water projects for Sanjeli and Zalod and nearby areas is being implemented at a cost of Rs.90-crore. However, she said, it is the duty of the citizens to save wastage of water, becoming dearer by the day.

She listed the Rs.5-lakh assistance to women’s milk producers’ primary society, providing 300 sq ft plot, scholarship to girl students appearing in the IAS main examination and interview and healthcare for anganwadis children as some of the other projects.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated on the occasion the Dahod municipal pumping station and the Limkheda police station built at a cost of Rs.84-lakh, and unveiled a booklet published by Dahod District Police.

District In-charge and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma said that the Anandiben Patel Government has lend further movement to ‘Gatisheel Gujarat’ by achieving 110 per cent target of development works pending for the Election Code of Conduct.

Member of Parliament Jashwantsinh Bhabhor hoped Dahod will prosper more during Mrs. Anandiben Patel’s leadership. He said that efforts were on to bring the Narmada waters to towns like Dahod.

Water Supply Principal Secretary Rajiv Kumar Gupta said that the Dahod Pumping Project is the department’s highest project so far. He said that 350 water supply projects, including 154 in Dahod-Panchmahals, were provided electricity connections during the last four months.

Prominent among those present of the occasion included Minister of State for Animal Husbandry Bachubhai Khabad, MLAs Rameshbhai Katara, Vinchhiyabhai Bhuria, Chandrikaben Baria, Vajubhai Panda, Mitesh Garasia, District Panchayat President Shankarbhai Amliyar, ex-MPs, ex-MLAs, municipal and panchayat office-bearers, Vadodara IGP Anupam Gehlot, District Collector M.A. Gandhi, DDO Satish Patel and DSP Mayanksinh Chavda, among others.