Now, MC water supply from 3.15 am to 9 am

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1

The Water Supply and Sewerage Disposal Committee of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, has decided to increase the water supply hours in the morning — from 3.15 am to 9 am — during the summer season.

This was decided during a meeting held here today under the chairmanship of Anil Kumar Dubey and attended by other members of the committee, including Chief Engineer Shailender Singh.

During the meeting, it was decided that road gullies will be checked throughout the city by the SDEs concerned and they would send a report daily to the higher authorities.

The committee members were of a view that the remaining works related to public health, which were started before the lockdown, would be taken up on a priority basis and completed well before monsoon to avoid any untoward incidents. The committee also instructed the engineers concerned to keep a fleet of water supply tankers ready so that they could be made available as per the demand of residents.

The members also decided to visit Hallo Majra and Ramdarbar area for checking the low water supply pressure and other water supply-related problems in the area in the evening.

54 get notice for wasting water

The MC today issued notices to 54 households for wasting water. If violation is repeated, they will be issued a challan.

One of the households was issued a challan of Rs 5,000 for using a water motor attached with the main supply line.

To ease out the low water supply, a team of officers and committee members will continue to visit various areas and challans will be issued to the those who had attached booster (tullu) pumps with the direct water supply lines.