{"id":63342,"date":"2025-09-12T22:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=63342"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:38:51","slug":"mla-arvind-inspects-nallahs-in-jammu-west-directs-authorities-for-immediate-desilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/mla-arvind-inspects-nallahs-in-jammu-west-directs-authorities-for-immediate-desilting\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA Arvind inspects Nallahs in Jammu West, directs authorities for immediate desilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arvindguptajk?lang=en\">Jammu West, Arvind Gupta<\/a>, on Friday conducted an extensive tour of his constituency to take stock of the situation following the recent rain havoc in Jammu city.The downpour had triggered waterlogging and blockages in several localities, causing hardships to residents.Gupta visited Wazir Lane, Durga Nagar, Kabir Colony, Subash Nagar, and Shakti Nagar, where Nallahs were choked with silt and debris, leading to overflowing during the rains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was accompanied by Ashwani Khajuria, XEn Sewerage &amp; Drainage West UEED Jammu, along with senior BJP leaders and former Corporators Sanjay Baru, Neelam Nargotra\u00a0 and Chaman Lal Bhagat.Interacting with the local residents, Gupta assured them that immediate measures were being taken to prevent a repeat of the chaos witnessed during the recent showers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe choking of Nallahs is one of the primary reasons behind waterlogging. I have directed the concerned departments to initiate desilting operations at the earliest so that such situations do not recur,\u201d Gupta said.He emphasized that the welfare of people was his top priority.\u201cOur administration is committed to providing timely solutions. Departments have been instructed to work in a mission mode to ensure proper drainage facilities. Accountability will be fixed if there is any laxity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ THIS :<a href=\"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/mla-ch-vikram-randhawa-visits-rain-affected-areas-in-preet-nagar-and-digiana\/\">MLA Ch. Vikram Randhawa Visits Rain-Affected Areas in Preet Nagar and Digiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gupta also directed officials to deploy additional manpower and machinery for clearing blockages and appealed to residents to cooperate by not dumping household waste into the drains.He assured that all necessary steps would be taken to strengthen drainage infrastructure in Jammu West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cThe recent rains were a wake-up call. We cannot afford complacency. Preventive measures are being put in place to protect people from such inconvenience in the future,\u201d Gupta maintained.Local residents expressed satisfaction over the MLA\u2019s proactive approach and hoped for swift redressal of the drainage issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Jammu West, Arvind Gupta, on Friday conducted an extensive tour of his constituency to take stock of the situation following the recent rain havoc in Jammu city.The downpour had triggered waterlogging and blockages in several localities, causing hardships to residents.Gupta visited Wazir Lane, Durga Nagar, Kabir Colony, Subash Nagar, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4964,64,29,454,54,28,4971],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bjp","8":"category-ground-report","9":"category-jammu","10":"category-jmc","11":"category-latest-news","12":"category-local-news","13":"category-mla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63344,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342\/revisions\/63344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}