The Ranchi Municipal Corporation officials on Monday conducted a meeting with the ward councilors and asked suggestive measures from the councilors to tackle the water crisis matter in their respective wards. The officials added they are planning to depute additional workforce to address the water crisis problem before March. This year, attention will be given in repairing and maintenance of the existing HYDT within the municipal peripheral, claimed Town Commissioner, Prashant Kumar.
By far, Rs 2 crore Budget has been sanctioned for the purpose. However, large number of ward councilors asked to increase the budget to meet different purposes. “The engineering wing has received some amount and will be utilized for addressing the issue. Moreover, the pending amount of all the ward councilors will be given to them at the earliest,” added Kumar.
The civic body is putting its constant effort to add few more water tankers for ensuring smooth supply of water in residential and commercial areas from the month of March, claimed the officials. An official from engineering division has claimed that the tender has been out for the maintenance of HYDT in the Capital City.
“Water board will prepare the draft of different wards and will sort out the issues of maintenance before the peak season. Soon a meeting regarding this is planned. The civic body has also issued a mobile number 94311-04428 for registering grievances on water shortage or maintenance of deep boring for city residents’ convenience,” said, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Bidyanand Sharma ‘Pankaj’.
In addition, it has been decided that residential areas where there will be the acute shortage of water, the civic body will supply water through tankers as per the requirement of specific area.
Notably, at present for maintenance of hand pumps 43 laborers are deployed and approximately nine vehicles are available with the engineering division of RMC to address the need in summer season.