Indian Express 28.10.2010
Corporators demand water supply status report from BMC
Express News Service Tags : civic administration, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Posted: Thu Oct 28 2010, 05:39 hrs
Mumbai: To fix resposibility for irregular water supply and to make civic administration more accountable, the corporators have demanded a status report from BMC on water supply situation in the city.“I have written to Municipal Commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya, additional municipal commissioner Aseem Gupta and standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale asking them to update the corporators on the status of the repair work undertaken by BMC,” said corporator Niyaz Vanu on Wednesday.
“Two months have passed and the administration has failed to pin point the exact cause of failure in the water supply system,” said Niyaz Vanu.
There are currently only 147 flow meters while the BMC needs atleast 225. For the past two days, 13 corporators from Chembur-Govandi regions have gone on a hunger strike to protest irregular water supply to their respective areas. Earlier in the month, corporators cutting across all party lines have slammed the civic administration for water troubles in the city. A few weeks ago, many parts of the city including Chembur, Govandi, and Dahisar received erratic water supply, the cause of which could not be detetcted by the officials. The civic administration later took help from retired senior water department officials to fix the trouble in the supply system.
