Works sanctioned for repair,desilting: CM
HERALD CORRESPONDENT
CANACONA, MAY 23
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has claimed that the government has sanctioned all works that require repair or desilting after the last October floods created havoc with natural resources like rivers, nullahs, fields and other exigencies, which will be completed before the onset of monsoons.
Kamat was responding to local scribes’ queries on pre-monsoon arrangements in Canacona during the sidelines of hot-mixing of road inauguration at Agonda on Sunday.
When asked specifically to clarify on the clearing of sand dunes and siltation accumulated at the mouth of Talpona River, he said: “Work may have been delayed but we have already sanctioned this work for Rs 34 lakh, it will be soon taken up and completed.”
When asked whether there is any confusion over jurisdiction of river mouths, as reportedly made out by some locally based offices, Kamat said: “It’s the job of Water Resources Department and only WRD will carry out disiltation or any other related works pertaining to rehabilitation of October floods fury on natural sources.”
A source in WRD office had earlier informed that Captain of Ports is the authority in river mouths and upper river portion up to the reach of saline water, who has been informed to take up desilting of river mouths.
