Chandigarh, December 22: Raising questions of propriety, a Punjab government department reporting to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has built a check dam that will secure from flooding his personal farmhouse being built at the foothills of Shivalik Hills outside Chandigarh. The dam at Siswan village in SAS Nagar district will divert a seasonal rivulet that would otherwise have flowed into the property bought by Amarinder Singh in January this year.
It has been constructed by the Department of Soil and Water Conservation of the Agriculture Ministry, a portfolio held by the Chief Minister.
The village panchayat, which had not sought such a measure earlier, passed a resolution this year asking the government for a dam while claiming that the water flowing downhill was flooding the fields of farmers.
Construction on the dam began in July, alongside the construction of the farmhouse. And a massive brick and concrete structure with high perimeter walls has come up behind the boundary wall of the Chief Minister’s property measuring 28 bighas and five biswas (around seven acres).
Source Indian Express
