Thousands of litres of water go waste every day due to pipeline leakages in several wards of the city, leading to damage of many roads, and the commuters have to face problems. According to sources, because of the alleged negligence and carelessness of the Municipal Corporation, thousands of liter water go waste and flowing on the roads. The pipeline leakage problem continues in the city, whether it is from the main line or the supply line. However, any measure to solve this problem is out of sight.
An alert resident of Indira Ward, Awadh Kishore Sharma has, with the help of water resources department employees and a private plumber, plugged the leakage of a pipeline before his house with his own expenses. Now the water leakage has been stopped. He said that the corporation has not been paying any attention to the water leakage problem in the city, hence he has decided to register case against the municipal corporation in the Consumer Forum and Pre-litigation Court.
According to the sources, because of the leakage problem on the 40-year old pipeline at various places, the corporation employees maintain the pipelines by digging the roads. But the problem could not be solved so far. Road leading from Chandini Chowk to Collectorate had been dug up for repair of the leakage, but the debris left out on the road. As per the residents, the corporation has been spending lakhs of rupees to solve the problem, but the wastage of water was still there.
Two years ago, in order to solve the pipeline leakage problem in the 40 wards of the city, the executive engineer of the corporation, HB Sharma, had prepared a Rs2 crore scheme for laying new pipelines in the entire city. However, neither the proposal been sent to the government, nor the officers ready to talk on this issue.
Corporation commissioner Ramesh Kumar Jaiswal said that the proposal sent for solving the leakage problem has been sanctioned. Maintenance was going on and as per need, old pipelines were being replaced, he added.