Press Note Eng Dt:-16/09/2017 Narmada Yojana
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Office of Shaktisinh Gohil
National Spokesperson, AICC & MLA, Abdasa
PRESS RELEASE 16th September, 2017
Narmada is lifeline of Gujarat. Congress did maximum work in seven years of its rule right from the foundations of the dam to main canal. Even after 22 years of BJP in power in Gujarat, Narmada water goes to the sea and BJP is making show of Narmada at public expense. Stating this national spokesperson of Congress Shaktisinh Gohil has asked questions to the Prime Minister with a request that he should reply to the questions of public importance.
Question 1:- Why BJP has not done canal works its being in power in Gujarat for long 22 years? There was no need for any kind of permission for these works.
Question 2:- Planning Commission and CAG had clearly said that there should be vertical integration approach in the canal work. But this has not been done. As a result farmers see water in canal but it does not reach their farms. Today, water reaches only 3 lakh hectares out of the planned irrigation of 19 lakh hectares. Will the BJP government responsible for this apologize for this?
Question 3:- There was no need for the permission for canal work. Despite this why only 18.803 km of canal was constructed in the 22 year of BJP rule against planned length of 90.389 kms? (Ref CAG report)
Question 4:- Gujarat has share of 9MAF of water which is already available in the dam. But canal work has not been completed so people are not getting full share. Then what is the advantage of completing gate work? Gates will only help generate electricity. But in the electricity Gujarat has negligible share. Why not canal work first?
Question 5:- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was President of Gujarat Congress for 25 years. He is a national celebrity. He was against show off at the cost of public money. So, why marketing of BJP at the expense of Sardar Sarovar resources? Why money from government treasury is used when it was announced that the statue of Sardar will be built from iron collected from people? Why the statue is built through Chinese resources?
Question 6:- What action you have taken after the exposure of rampant corruption, mal administration and misuse of funds in Narmada Nigam? Why shielded corrupt?
(Enclosed are the cases of corruption, mal administration and misuse of funds in Narmada Nigam)
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