Keeping up with his image of ‘Janta Ka CM’ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal undertook a padyatra in Tughlakabad Assembly constituency of South Delhi on Sunday morning and interacted with the residents to know their problems.
Interacting with the residents of the area Chief Minister said that the residents will be getting drinking water in your taps through the newly laid pipelines in a week’s time.
“You would no more be dependent on the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) water tankers. We have completed the work of laying water pipeline in your area, now the supply of water will start in a week,” said the Chief Minister.
The chief minister apprised the residents that the order for the same has already been given to the Delhi Jal Board.
A resident of Harikesh Nagar in the constituency, Kaushal Raj said that it indeed is quite heartening to know that they will start getting water from Sonia Vihar water treatment plant in their taps.
Kiran, a resident of the Jhuggi in Harikesh Nagar said, we used to walk long distances to get water, but now we have the facility of water tankers coming to us and providing water.
“Now the Chief Minister has come to us and has informed that we will be
getting water in our taps after a week. This is really very great news for us. We have been facing the problem of water since long, now the woes are going to end,” she said.
Another resident of the area, Sunita, said that we used to carry water from far off places; there were fights over water, now we are free of that.
Earlier, Chief Minister undertook a padyatra in the Deoli assembly constituency on Saturday morning. He received complaints of unavailability of DJB tankers, private tankers mafia and theft of water through private bores during his interaction with the local residents.
CM reportedly directed the DJB officials to lodge FIR against the private tanker mafia and private borewell operators. He also ordered the DJB to start laying of pipeline in Deoli area and start supply of Sonia Vihar water in Deoli within four months.