The dry season is yet to begin, but the drinking water crisis is
deepening in the hilly areas of Tripura especially the water scare
Jampui, Sakhan and Shermoon hill ranges giving an impression of a hard
days ahead.
The thirsty messages from these hills have stolen the
sleep of the engineers of the Drinking Water Department who has started
running after searching the water sources.
Recently two senior
engineers of the department based in Kumarghat and Dharmanagar Sujit Das
and Animesh Das visited the hills of Shakhan and Shermoon. Earlier the Chief Engineer of the department Sumesh Das visited the hills of Jampui range.
However,
the department has completed one innovative water project which will be
inaugurated on January 19. The Minister for Drinking Water Sudip Roy
Barman will inaugurate the project and the departmental officers are
expecting that it will meet up the crisis of a large area.
The
Minister will stay in the hills for two days to assess the depth of the
crisis and it is expected that few more project may be taken up after
his visit. An official in the department said there is no dearth of fund
for drinking water project and the minister is interested in taking up
some new projects which will give result at the earliest. Meanwhile the
Department and the district administration has already started
distribution of drinking water through tankers and trucks in areas where
there is no source of water and with the crisis increases this
activities also will spread.
Source: The Sentinel
