Mayor Alok Sharma directed the officials to provide sufficient water with enough pressure during the summer by completing the different plans approved during different meetings of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC). He also directed them to finish the ongoing works within given time limit.
These directives were given during a special zonal meeting of the Corporation on Sunday. He also directed to acquire all the tube wells on the Government lands and file FIR against people who are illegally digging tube wells and stealing water by opening valves.
Sharma expressed his displeasure as even after the digging of tube wells there was no electricity connection provided and he ordered the officials to make the connections available by Monday. In this regard he spoke to the officials at different electricity distribution companies over telephone and asked them to provide electricity by Monday.
In the meeting the in charge of water works department of Mayor in Council (MIC) Surendra Badika, Additional Commissioner Vinod Kumar Chaturvedi, in-charge Chief Engineer AR Pawar, executive engineer Avinash Shrivastava, Corportars of all the wards in zone numbers 14, 15, 16,17,18 and 19 and other officials of the corporation were present.
In the meeting the Mayor discussed the problems regarding the supply of water informed by the assistant engineer and sub engineers and for resolving the issue the mayor accepted the proposals to dig tube wells, expanding the pipe lines, installing valves and water tanks, to purchase pump motor and to provide extra tankers.Sharma ordered to install water tanks at 78 places out of which 36 places are in Kolar area.
He also directed to dig tube wells in 23 places in village areas near Kolar, install hydrants at lamnbha Kheda area and supply water using tankers, providing bulk connection and house hold water connections at the earliest and repairing leaked and broken pipe connections.