Talking tough on drinking water crisis, Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) Mayor Bholu Paswan called PHED officials and held a meeting to solve the issue on a warfooting on Wednesday.
The Mayor asked authorities to ensure that the situation is improved within three days. In the meeting, PHED officials also alleged the electricity department for erratic supply. “Prolonged power cuts are one of the main reasons behind the irregular water supply,” officials said.
Mayor also directed to the electricity department officials to arrange regular power supply in the Chas municipal area so that equitable and sufficient water supply can be done regularly at a fixed time.
With the rise in mercury, depleted the water level and prolong intermittent power cut cripple lives, the residents battling with water crisis are enforced to buy water at any cost to save their lives.
Water in the Chas area is being sold at Rs 35-45 per gallons during these days. Over 7 lakh residents of Chas (township) are battling with crisis and are forced to buy water paying high prices, said Gaghender Kumar a resident of Taranagar Chas. “Nobody is paying heed to quench our thrust or issue,” he added.
Vikram Agarwal of Prabhat Colony Chas said that since the last two months, water supply has been hampered and they have to purchase drinking water from the market at any cost. Gajju of Tara Nagar Chas said, “The supply comes without pressure and only for 10-15 minutes in two days.” People from different regions of the city have made complaints in the last fifteen days about the irregular supply of drinking water.
We have planned to construct six water towers across the city to achieve the objective of equitable water supply to each house with an estimated cost of Rs 147 crore at different locations, said Mayor.
“We have also planned to dig intek wells near Damoder River and to supply water through pipelines to each house under municipal corporation area,” he added.
Its DPR was prepared after keeping several issues in mind including population residing in the municipal area, new wards and displaced areas, said Paswan adding “tender process has been completed, construction will be started shortly”.
The water crisis in Chas aggravated after the population saw a big boom in the late nineties from mere 50 thousand people.