Fresh deadline for completion of Tawi artificial lake project

Himachal Pradesh Social Aspects of state

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has set a fresh deadline of 2023 to complete the multi-crore artificial Tawi lake project in Jammu.

The deadline for the completion of artificial pondage (lake) in the Tawi river has been set for April next year.
After missing the first target date in 2012, the contractor missed five other deadlines in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, when the contractor stopped work, prompting authorities to cancel its project and order a probe.
Stating that the project has the potential to give a major facelift to Jammu city, Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta directed the department to speed up the execution of the project, so that the artificial pondage in the river is created by April next year.
This was stated by the Chief Secretary at a meeting to review the progress of a project related to the Tawi riverfront development in Jammu, UT officials said.