The Gurugram District Administration on Friday took up a massive ‘District Enforcement Drive’ to curb misuse of water and seal illegal borewells.
The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Amit Khatri sent 57 teams comprising of volunteers, officers, police personnel and engineers from the Tau Devi Lal Stadium to conduct the drive.
Under the drive 200 illegal borewells and tube wells sealed and by the teams. These included the unmanned borewell and service stations who were washing cars by tapping into the groundwater.
“This was the massive exercise was undertaken in a day to check misuse of water, though the drive will continue further also as part of Jalshakti Abhiyan under Gurujal project. The drive continues for the entire next week,” Khatri said.
These teams consisted of 100 police personnel, ten ITI plumbing apprentices trained to check the functionality of rainwater harvesting structures and more than 50 NCC or NSS Volunteers. Each team was accompanied by two police personnel. The plumbers were also prior trained and informed about the district action plan to prevent water wastage.
“The teams will seal of illegal tube wells and borewells, took action against misuse and wastage of water checked whether the Rain Water Harvesting is functional or not. These teams also reported leakages of water in public areas and plugged those leakages also,” the DC said.
Khatri further said that usually we talk hard and say that no illegal borewells will be tolerated but when it comes to taking action, we become reluctant, which is wrong. He said that now it’s time to strike hard on the culprits who are drawing water illegally through borewells.
He directed the teams to take strict action in the real sense of the term and also report the leakages in pipelines in public places adding that water management involves due diligence and strict enforcement to prevent water wastage.
“The objective of initiating the drive is to channelize knowledge through student about saving water, create awareness amongst students, teachers, parents and administration spread awareness to prevent wastage of water in the school and at home,” an administration official said.