CHANDIGARH; Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal has honoured Gurdarshan Singh, Managing Director (MD) of Gurnam Singh and Company, Chandigarh, for helping in providing potable drinking water to the remote areas of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir by boring deep tube wells.

Gurdarshan Singh has been awarded a gold medal, certificate and cash prize by Chief Minister on the occasion of Independence Day at state level function, Ludhiana.

The company, which was established at Derabassi in the year 1970 by Gurnam Singh, has made a record by boring about 2500 deep tube wells so far and was also honoured by the Indian Air Force in the year 1991 and by Military Engineering Services in the year 1994.

Gursharan Singh affirmed that their company brought laurel at the international level also and has earned recognition in the international sector by being a member of the ADIA (Australia) and NGWA (USA). He told the Pioneer that he had visited America, Canada, France, Japan and other countries to upgrade his company with latest technical information in tube well sector.

Gursharan Singh stated that for setting up tube well in difficult terrain areas, the company has imported a special machine DR-24 rig from Canada in the year 1999. "To help in providing potable drinking water in Jammu City, Baramulla (Srinagar), Kupwara border areas, tube wells had been bored with the help of this machine," he avowed and added, "Besides the work of boring 11 tube wells up to 1000 feet deep in the adjoining areas of Jammu is in progress. This work would be completed by July 2009."

"It will provide extra nine lakh gallons of water in the city," Gursharan claimed and confirmed that the company would bore 30 more tube wells in Jammu and its adjoining areas.