Drinking water major worry for Lingaraj Vihar residents
BHUBANESWAR: Residents of Lingaraj Vihar in the state capital have been running from pillar to post demanding direct pipe water supply by Public Health Department (PHD) to their houses.
Lingaraj Vihar in Pokhariput locality was developed as a residential area in 2001-02 and has 430 houses. Ever since inception, drinking water has been a major cause of concern for the residents.
Initially, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and the two private builders who developed the colony used to fill up a 3 lakh litre water tank in the area hiring water tankers. Residents had to bear the cost. Then, at one point of time, water was lifted from open wells in the area through pumps to fill up the tank.
In summer, however, all these arrangements fall flat. After repeated appeals, the public health department ensured piped water connection to the tank, but there is no arrangement for water to reach individual houses, locals rued.
"We have been demanding separate PHD pipe water connections to our houses, but that has not been done. We continue to get polluted water collected from different sources, which often cause spread of water-borne diseases in our locality," Sisir Kumar Mohapatra, president of Lingaraj Vihar Welfare Association, said.
The other major problem of the area is poorly maintained roads. Roads were dug up almost two years ago for sewerage work, but neither has the work been completed, nor have the roads been levelled.
Mayor Anant Narayan Jena said, "The roads were earlier with the BDA and they have been handed over to BMC only recently. We have urged the sewerage board to complete their project and after that we would complete repair works. Plans are afoot to arrange individual piped water connections to their houses."
Source - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Drinking-water-major-worry-for-Lingaraj-Vihar-residents/articleshow/26634321.cms
Lingaraj Vihar in Pokhariput locality was developed as a residential area in 2001-02 and has 430 houses. Ever since inception, drinking water has been a major cause of concern for the residents.
Initially, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and the two private builders who developed the colony used to fill up a 3 lakh litre water tank in the area hiring water tankers. Residents had to bear the cost. Then, at one point of time, water was lifted from open wells in the area through pumps to fill up the tank.
In summer, however, all these arrangements fall flat. After repeated appeals, the public health department ensured piped water connection to the tank, but there is no arrangement for water to reach individual houses, locals rued.
"We have been demanding separate PHD pipe water connections to our houses, but that has not been done. We continue to get polluted water collected from different sources, which often cause spread of water-borne diseases in our locality," Sisir Kumar Mohapatra, president of Lingaraj Vihar Welfare Association, said.
The other major problem of the area is poorly maintained roads. Roads were dug up almost two years ago for sewerage work, but neither has the work been completed, nor have the roads been levelled.
Mayor Anant Narayan Jena said, "The roads were earlier with the BDA and they have been handed over to BMC only recently. We have urged the sewerage board to complete their project and after that we would complete repair works. Plans are afoot to arrange individual piped water connections to their houses."
Source - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Drinking-water-major-worry-for-Lingaraj-Vihar-residents/articleshow/26634321.cms