{"id":42249,"date":"2023-02-10T15:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=42249"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:02:34","slug":"guidelines-issued-regarding-excavation-and-repair-of-crude-wells-borewells-and-tube-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/guidelines-issued-regarding-excavation-and-repair-of-crude-wells-borewells-and-tube-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines issued regarding excavation and repair of crude wells, borewells and tube wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Patiala, February 10(Press Ki Taquat):<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Additional District Magistrate Gurpreet Singh Thind in exercise of powers vested under Section 144 of the Faujdari, Jabata, Sanghata 1973 (Act No. 2 of 1974) for digging unpaved wells and borewells\/tubewells in urban and rural areas causing injury to people and children.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">In order to avoid loss of life and property due to falling and keeping the safety of the common people as the priority, guidelines have been issued following the guidelines issued by the Punjab Government under the orders of the Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">According to the orders, before digging\/repairing borewells\/tubewells in rural and urban areas within the limits of District Patiala, the land owner must inform the District Collector, concerned Sarpanch Gram Panchayat, Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Public Health Department or Land Defense Department 15 days in advance.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">shall and registration of all Government\/Semi Government\/Private agencies digging or repairing wells\/borewells shall be mandatory.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">These orders will continue till April 4, 2023 and legal action will be initiated against the person\/drilling agency owner who violates the order.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">According to the prohibitory orders, a signboard with the full address of the drilling agency and the owner of the well\/borewell should be installed at the site of digging or repair of the well\/borewell and the registration number of the drilling agency should also be written on that signboard.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">It will be necessary to cover the borewell with a galvanized wire and cover it with a steel plate cover with nut bolts, a cement\/concrete platform around the well\/borewell, which is 0.30 m above and 0.30 m below the ground level of the well.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Must be built around.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Further, after digging or repairing the well\/borewell, the empty space should be leveled by putting soil around it, the empty borewell\/well should be filled up to the top with soil\/sand and after completion of the work, the ground level should be leveled.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The same should be done as before and the well\/borewell should not be left open under any circumstances and the defunct well should be properly filled from bottom to top with smooth soil, stone, concrete etc.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The Additional District Magistrate said that no person shall dig or repair a well\/borewell without the written approval and supervision of the Water Supply and Sanitation Department.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Sarpanch and Agriculture Department officials in rural areas and Public Health Department, Land Defense Corporation, Municipal Councils Junior Engineers and Executive Officers in urban areas will prepare a report of their respective jurisdictions as to how many borewells\/wells etc. in their area.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">New ones are dug, how many are repaired, how many are in use, how many are empty and how many are filled.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">These departments shall keep a copy of their respective area report for office records and every month a copy of this report shall be sent to the Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patiala, February 10(Press Ki Taquat): Additional District Magistrate Gurpreet Singh Thind in exercise of powers vested under Section 144 of the Faujdari, Jabata, Sanghata 1973 (Act No. 2 of 1974) for digging unpaved wells and borewells\/tubewells in urban and rural areas causing injury to people and children. In order to avoid loss of life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,16185,9919,1],"tags":[17207,17204,17201,17205,5293,17206,17197,17200,17202,17208,17198,17203,17209,17199],"class_list":["post-42249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-national","category-politics","category-punjab","tag-20-ias-and-43-pcs-officers-transferred-babushahi","tag-9-pcs-officers-times-of-india","tag-all-dist-sign-boards-to-have-info-in-punjabi-tribune-india","tag-collectorate-district-mansa","tag-government-of-punjab","tag-government-of-punjab-india","tag-gurpreet-singh-thind","tag-now","tag-patiala-district-administration-bans-weapons-at-hotels","tag-patiala-health-dept-asked-to-ramp-up-covid-19-testing","tag-pcs-patiala","tag-punjab-govt-transfers-24-ias","tag-voter-awareness-van-flagged-off-by-sh-gurpreet-singh-thind","tag-whos-who-district-patiala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42251,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249\/revisions\/42251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}