Raipur – Today, Mayor of Municipal Corporation Raipur, Mrs. Meenal Chabe and Commissioner Vishwadeep reviewed the preparations for ensuring smooth drinking water supply in summer from all the zone commissioners, executive engineers, water department engineers, and gave necessary instructions to the concerned officials. Mayor Mrs. Meenal Chabe said that providing good drinking water facilities to the city residents is the fundamental responsibility of the Municipal Corporation and everyone should discharge it well. During summer, solid preparations should be made for the work of continuous smooth and well-organized water supply to the citizens in the capital city, so that the citizens do not have to wander here and there for drinking water in summer. There is no shortage of drinking water in the capital city of Raipur, to provide smooth water supply in summer, well-organized management of water should be provided. On the basis of experience of previous years, preparations should be made for smooth supply by providing good management in the places of water crisis. Instructions have been given to prepare an action plan within the next 3 days to provide better management at the places of possible water crisis.
The Mayor and Commissioner have directed the Executive Engineer Jal to provide a list of 20-22 such places in the city in the next 3 days, where tap connections have been taken directly from the rising main pipe line. In this, it has been directed to take immediate action to cut the tap connections taken from the rising main. Mayor Mrs. Meenal Chabe and Commissioner Vishwadeep have directed the teams of Raipur Smart City, Amrit Mission, Water Works Department and Water Department of all 10 zones to provide good drinking water supply system in summer by maintaining mutual coordination. Commissioner Vishwadeep said that in order to ensure smooth water supply during summer, special attention should be paid to adequate pressure in the taps and monitoring should be done and by maintaining constant live contact with all the linemen doing valve operating work, by providing good valve management system, all zone officers should quickly solve the problem of low pressure water in the taps. Water should be filled in the tanks regularly and properly every day, the zone officers should continuously monitor it by being alert and vigilant during the summer. The mayor directed to take immediate action on the demand for getting new bores done to overcome the water crisis at some places. Executive Engineer Water informed that the tender process is going on in this regard. Soon, as soon as the rates are approved as per the rules under the process, bore mining work will be done on priority. Zone 1’s Buniyaad Nagar Bhanpuri, Zone 8’s Sondongri and Zone 9’s Saddu, Mowa, Daldal Seoni and some other various places will require water supply from drinking water tankers in summer. In the meeting, the officials informed the Mayor and Commissioner that in Zone 9, Dwarika Vihar Gali No. 1 in Kushabhau Thackeray Ward, Daldal Seoni BSUP, Bairagi
BSUP, Tekari PMAY, Sajandas BSUP, Kachana Housing Board Block 1-25, Kachana BSUP, Khamhardih area, Shriram Nagar Sales Tax Colony, Bhavana Nagar, Sarhad Phase 2 Housing Board, Brahmadevnagar, Suraj Nagar, BSUP, Sankalp Society Phase 1, 2, in Zone 4, Arjun Chowk Yadav Mohalla in Pandit Ravishankar Shukla Ward, Dhobi Gali Sohaga Temple back area in Brahmanpara Ward, Telipara, Nayapara, Budhapara in Swami Vivekanand Sadar Bazar Ward, Dhobi Gali in Maulana Abdul Rauf Ward, Banstala Baijnathpara, Akashvani Basti in Civil Line Ward, Joginagar, Gadhbo Nava Chhattisgarh Chowk to Netaji Chowk, Pandit Punjabi Colony in Bhagwati Charan Shukla Ward, Dr. Kumharpara Adarsh Nagar in Vipin Bihari Sur Ward, Tagore Nagar area in Shaheed Pankaj Vikram Ward, Chhattisgarh Nagar, Santoshi Nagar in Moreshvar Rao Gadre Ward, areas around Kailashpati Garden, Brij Nagar area in Chandrashekhar Azad Ward, Sanjay Nagar RDA Plot area in Shaheed Rajiv Pandey Ward, Sanjay Nagar Indira Nagar area, Parashuram Nagar Professor Colony Sector 2 area in Mahamaya Mandir Ward, Near Radhakrishna Temple in Veerangna Avanti Bai Ward, Near GP Road No. 14, Indira Nagar Mandir Gali Next to GP Road, Prem Nagar, Adarsh Nagar Colony Odia Basti, Telugu Basti, Jharkhand Basti, Valmiki Nagar, Ghas Para, Sahu Bhawan in Raman Mandir Ward, Punjabi Bada, Gosai Bada in Danveer Bhamashah Ward, Sindhi Bada, Tulsi Nagar, Satnami Para, Sahu Para Mini Mata Chowk, Police Colony in Havaldar Abdul Hameed Ward, Fafaadih, Central Jail etc. 50 places under Zone 2 are Pandri in Guru Govind Singh Ward, near councilor’s residence, Sheetla Colony, Pandri Driver Gali, Pandri Satnami Para Jaitkhambh, in front of the Peepal tree till Dev Diwan Kurre’s house, Pandri Devanand Gali, near Pandit Puteshwar Temple, lane next to Subhan paan thela, near Mayur Club, near Glass House, behind Mata Garage in Saraswati Nagar, near Raja Bada Vishwa Hindu Parishad, near Gorkha Colony drain, Shankar Nagar Officers Colony in Shankar Nagar Ward, Shankar Nagar Baronbazar Command Area, New Shanti Nagar, Shankar Nagar Turning Point, from Shah Sweets to the turn, Mochi Para in Sant Kabir Das Ward, Buniyad Nagar Satnami Para in Yatiyan Lal Ward, some areas of Vijay Nagar, Banjari Mata
The officials have prepared a list of places where there is a drinking water crisis as per the experience of previous years, such as the area near Bandhava lake and Cabin Para in Mandir Ward, some areas of Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar in Netaji Kanhaiyalal Bazari Ward, Block 26, Parvati Nagar Sunil Dal and Shivlal Gali in Thakkar Bapa Ward area, Anand Marg 65 Block, Krishna Vihar Prem Nagar Khorbahara Gali, Pathan Mohalla, Ashoknagar Bazar Para in Bal Gangadhar Tilak Ward, Upar Para Gali No. 1, 2, 3, etc. The Mayor and Commissioner asked to make arrangements for sending water tankers in summer as per practical requirement. Along with this, they asked to run a public awareness campaign in the interest of the city through social media among the citizens to save drinking water. The Mayor said that apart from the list of places where drinking water crisis has been prepared, the concerned zone officers should make arrangements in advance so that drinking water crisis does not occur at other places in summer by continuous monitoring, otherwise, if drinking water crisis occurs in summer, accountability will be fixed and action will be taken against the concerned. Any kind of evasion and negligence in smooth and well-organized drinking water supply in summer will not be tolerated at all.