The Pioneer 27.04.2013
10% of N Delhi water samples found unfit for consumption
Almost 10 per cent
of drinking water samples collected from areas under North Delhi
Municipal Corporation have failed to meet prescribed standards. As
compared to the South Corporation, where just 1.2 per cent samples
failed to meet the requisite criteria, its counterpart in the North
fared much worse in the testing done by the civic body in coordination
with the Delhi Jal Board.
According to the testing done by the corporation’s own laboratory, 37
out of 420 samples from NMC areas were found to be unfit for
consumption. Narela and Civil Line zones were the worst-affected with 20
out of 70 and seven out of 17 samples failing the tests. When it came
to results of the South Corporation area, only three of the 242 samples
failed the laboratory inspection. As far the 151 samples tested jointly
by the civic body and the Delhi Jal Board are concerned, 25 or almost 17
per cent from the North Delhi area were declared unsuitable for
drinking. The joint testing of 70 samples from the South saw all of them
passing the test.
The testing was not undertaken in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation
area and hence, the figures for that part are not available in the
report. “We have been repeatedly asking both the Delhi Government and
the Jal Board to look into the matter but to no avail,” said Leader of
the House in North Corporation Mahendra Nagpal while giving details of
the report. “This is a serious matter as it concerns public health. The
situation will only get worse in the summer months. We can only ask the
State Government to look into the matter,” he added.
