Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H.K. Patil visited a well near Dulhan Darwaja at Patal Nagari in Bidar that has started yielding water after Nirmiti Kendra officials cleaned it, on Monday.
The Minister spoke to residents of the area like Irshad Ahmed, who said that they were collecting water from the mini water supply tank filled with water from the well on the Bidar-Ashtur Road. They said the tank was filled once every day and women queued up to collect the water from the tank.
He later was updated about the desilting work from Deputy Commissioner Anurag Tewari and Nirmiti Kendra project manager Anil Kulkarni. Mr. Tewari said the district administration had completed cleaning and dredging of 70 open wells and 30 large tanks and half of those water bodies were now yielding water now. He said at least 20 wells in the city were yielding water, of which around five wells were yielding more than one lakh litres of water.
Zilla panchayat chief executive officer Pavan Kumar Malpati, joint director of agriculture S.K. Ziaulla and others were present.
