Taking serious note of lowering of water table with the rise of summer heat causing crisis of potable water to residents in several urban and rural areas of Garhwa, DC Neha Arora chaired a meeting with officials in Nagar Council Garhwa, Nagar Panchayat Manjhiaon and Nagar Untari town at the ward and village label.
After holding the meeting with officials, the DC directed to submit a detail report with technical experts to check hand pumps other resources and ensure their uninterrupted functioning till May 07.
The DC said following several complaints of water crisis in urban areas making the life miserable in the summer heat, an inquiry committee was also constituted to visit different areas, asses the functioning of the hand pumps and other resources.
Water is the prime necessity for sustaining life and all efforts will be made to ensure that hand pumps and motors installed in both urban and rural areas functioned properly, said the DC.
The work on 54 schemes of pipeline yojana is going on by World Bank which will completed in May 2016. Besides this five closed pipe line water supply schemes also handed over to World Bank for operating, DC added.
On power crisis, DC informed that Garhwa people will get 24 hour electricity from May last week after it gets linked with the Hatia Grid.
Altogether 16342 hands pumps are installed in the district out of which 779 hand pumps need special repairing. While 1006 hands pumps are defunct due to unavailability of pipe, PHED Executive Engineer said.