With summer setting in, water crisis hits Zirakpur

Tribune News Service

Zirakpur, May 4

With the onset of summers, residents of various housing societies and colonies here complained that they were not getting regular water supply for the past many days.

Residents of Shiva Enclave, Sunny Enclave, Baltana and other areas said they were facing many problems in the absence of water supply for the last three days.

Residents alleged that the Municipal Council failed to provide water supply and officials were not even listening to their concerns.

Shiva Enclave resident Gautam said, “It has been three days our water supply has been interrupted. We have requested officials in the Municipal Council physically and also registered online complaints but to no avail.”

Sunny Enclave resident SP Sharma said, “Residents of Sunny Enclave are not getting proper water supply from the tubewell. Currently, we are getting supply from Preet Colony. Whenever there is a power cut, the problem becomes acute.”

“We have requested the civic body’s executive officer to provide a generator for the tubewell so that water supply is not affected due to power cuts but nothing has been done so far,” said Sharma.

Most of the residents alleged that even the directions from the CMO to the civic body did not bear any result.

There are close to 80 tubewells in the city which cater to the water needs of the residents. As many as 25 new tubewells have been sanctioned by the local bodies department in the last two-three years, but only four have become operational till now.