With tube wells being the primary supply of water provide, residents of Panchkula have been dealing with the issue of onerous water for a very long time. Seeking reduction, a number of residents had urged the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HSVP) to restore a 300-metre pipeline to deliver water to the district from the Kaushalya dam, which had sustained injury in 2018. Three years later, residents nonetheless await its restoration. .
Now, many residents have written to the Haryana CM in addition to native MLA Gyan Chand Gupta requesting them to “personally intervene and instruct the involved authorities to take up the matter on precedence throughout the stipulated time-frame, in order that we Safe potable consuming water which is a elementary proper of each citizen.It can also be requested that preparations could also be made to combine canal water with tubewell provide within the permitted ratio in order that each the waters will be utilized in optimum method and to get higher water provide.
Avinash Malik, a resident of Sector 20, says, “The metropolis has been dealing with water issues for the reason that inception of Panchkula metropolis in 1977, as water is introduced by means of tube wells. After a number of efforts by the Haryana authorities, two schemes had been ready for the provision of consuming water. Accordingly, the primary was deliberate and constructed within the type of the Kaushalya Dam on the Ghaghar River close to Pinjore to lure the rain water, which might overflow, and the ensuing floods would go downstream. In order to reinforce the water provide in Panchkula and provide potable water, a pipeline was laid from the dam to Sector 1 of Panchkula, the place a filter plant and underground water provide price crores of rupees to mitigate this drawback. The tank was constructed.
The venture with water provide by means of pipeline had labored out properly and a lot of areas had been relieved from the persistent situation of onerous water. However, throughout the wet season in 2018, a piece of about 300 meters of underground pipeline was washed away as a consequence of street injury close to Amaravati and since then uncooked water provide from Kaushalya dam was lower off.
“It is apathy on the part of HSVP that this 300 meter damaged pipeline cannot be repaired. This issue keeps getting tangled up between HSVP and NHAI, which is a matter of great concern for us. The matter can be easily resolved by the commissioner of NHAI, principal secretaries of town and country planning as well as B&R department or public health department of Haryana, but there has been no head-through even after three years,” KK Jindal, one other resident of Trans-Ghaggar sector.
“Under these circumstances, water is being drawn out by underground water through tube wells and this extracted water is full of hardness and salts which are beyond the permissible limits and they are posing a health hazard, besides this causing blockages in pipelines used for supply. . In such a situation, it is advisable to arrange potable water for all the residents for a healthy life,” Jindal stated.
According to HSVP officers, whereas the pipeline is underneath its jurisdiction, the street which was destroyed at the moment can also be with the NHAI, which is among the primary causes for the delay. HSVP government engineer Amit Rathi stated, “We are yet to get permission from NHAI to rebuild this 2.5-feet pipeline as they themselves are involved in the reconstruction of the road.”
In the earlier years, one other venture to deliver canal water from Kajauli in Punjab to Mohali, Chandigarh and Panchkula was executed and a pipeline was laid to Sector 1 Panchkula Waterworks. Some residents of town allege, “Due to unprofessional attitude of Haryana government the allotted water could not reach Panchkula and this quota of Panchkula is being used by Chandigarh and Mohali.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
