Jammu, Aug. 14 -- Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that the central government has sped up projects in Jammu region to ensure optimal use of river waters. He also informed that the last phase of the Shahpur Kandi work, a national project, which was also revived after four decades following the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be completed by September 15. "Water will start flowing through it for generation of electricity," he said at the district development coordinationand monitoring committees' (DISHA) meeting in Kathua. The project aims to minimise the excess water of the Ravi river going through the Madhopur headworks downstream to Pakistan. The water will instead be used in J&K and Punjab. "There's a good news to share that the Ujh multipurpose project, which was conceived nearly 100 years ago in 1920s by the then Maharaja Hari Singh, has now been revived and a coordination working group has been constituted of the JK UT officers and the central UT officers," he said. He further said that the Ujh multipurpose project also received an impetus because of the intervention of the home ministry and the defence ministry, who are also now keen to take up the project in order to check the infiltration route through Ujh river. "Once this project becomes functional, it will help irrigate thousands of hectares of land, which could go up to even 90,000 hectares. The surplus water not to be allowed to flow into Pakistan, so an alternate plan is also being jointly prepared by J&K, Punjab and the central government," he added. India has kept the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) in abeyance following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 that left 26 tourists dead and scores injured. The Indus Waters Treaty was signed between the two countries in 1960 for sharing of Indus waters. Dr Jitendra Singh also emphasised that the industrial biotech park in Barnoti, 11th such industrial park in the country and first in north India, will become functional in the next few weeks with the involvement of public private participation. "This will create avenues of jobs, manufacturing and business for the youngsters in various areas of bio-manufacturing and hospital instruments," he said. The Union minister said that Kathua was the first district to come up with familybunker system in the border villages, covering about 2,000 families. "The other border areas are also following this as a role model. Meanwhile, 1,048additional bunkers have been proposed which willbring the total number of family bunkers in the Kathua border areas to nearly 3,000," he further said....