SDO of Sewerage Board suspended on corruption charges

GURDASPUR: Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu suspended a sub-divisional officer of Water Supply and Sewerage Board in the state, for dereliction of duty. In Gurdaspur to review various development projects undertaken by the previous government led by Parkash Singh Badal, Sidhu said SDO Jugal Kishore was negligent in the construction of a treatment plant in Dera Baba Nanak, and that its polluted water was entering farmers' agriculture field and destroying crops. Sidhu reiterated the current government's commitment to review several development projects undertaken by the previous dispensation.