Jal Shakti

Chandigarh (Gurpreet Singh): Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Ajnala Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, accompanied by a delegation of village sarpanches from his border constituency, met Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil on Monday to press for the expeditious construction of a multipurpose dam across the Ujh River in Jammu and Kashmir. Presenting the memorandum directly to the Centre in Chandigarh, Dhaliwal stressed that building the water-retention structure remains vital to regulating downstream flows entering Punjab, which routinely trigger severe seasonal flooding across low-lying rural belts. Highlighting the long-standing crisis faced by riverside settlements, Dhaliwal pointed out that recurring inundations have inflicted…