Jacob Zhimomi meets Union Minister Uma Bharati

New Delhi, March 4 (MExN): Nagaland’s Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation and Flood Control, Jacob Zhimomi, today requested Union Minister Uma Bharati to release Central grant for ongoing minor irrigation projects under AIBP during 2014-15 and the committed liabilities for completed schemes under FMP taken up in 2014-15.   Zhimomi had called on the Union Minister for Water Resource, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation at her office in New Delhi.   According to a press release from PRO, Nagaland House, New Delhi, Zhimomi briefed the Union Minister on the ongoing schemes under the Ministry in Nagaland. He also submitted a Concept Note to the Minister on Dhansiri River Development and Rejuvenation for consideration under her Ministry.

  The Union Minister assured the Parliamentary Secretary to release fund for the ongoing projects. She also said that for Dhansiri River, she will take up the matter with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change as the Conservation of Rivers is under that Ministry, the release added.   Parliamentary Secretary was accompanied by Chief Engineer Irrigation Njilo Kemp.



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