Activists urge corporators to take up water issue with govt

AURANGABAD: A group of activists staged a demonstration in front of the municipal corporation building demanding that corporators take up the Jayakwadi water issue with the state government.

The agitators on Friday said the peoples' representatives should join the fight to get the government to release more water from upstream dams into the Jayakwadi, the city's only source of drinking water. They resorted to a whistle-blowing agitation in front of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

Raising slogans against the civic body, Jayakwadi Pani Sangharsha Kruti Samiti convener Jayajirao Suryawanshi said the representatives were not being vocal about the issue. "The city is solely dependent on the Jayakwadi and a drop in its water level directly affects the distribution. But the corporators have not pushed for water to be released from dams upstream. We appeal to them to come forward against the injustice," he said.

Suryawanshi added that the 99 corporators and five co-operative members could form a pressure group and demand a desired quantity of water in the dam.

In the absence of mayor Kala Oza, Suryawanshi gave a memorandum to BJP corporator Sanjay Kenekar and urged him to raise his voice for the cause. He also met executive engineer Hemant Kolhe and highlighted the importance of Jayakwadi dam water for the local people.

Source - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Activists-urge-corporators-to-take-up-water-issue-with-govt/articleshow/22406119.cms

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