Jalandhar: No water supply for 5 days, angry Lamma Pind residents block road

JALANDHAR, JULY 14

Peeved over no water supply in Lamma Pind for the past five days, area residents on Thursday jammed Lamma Pind-Kishanpura road in protest.

Area councillor Rajwinder Singh Raja also joined the residents to express his solidarity with the agitating residents from Ward No. 6, 58 and 59. Residents said they were getting limited water to drink at home via tankers and there was no provision for the supply for sanitation purposes, kitchen chores and washing. “We have been desperately waiting for the water supply to get restored so that we can lead a normal life again,” said Parminder Singh, a resident.

Raja said he met the Commissioner earlier in the day and gave him a written representation. “There are eight motors connected with tubewells and pumps for water supply in the area and all of them are non-functional due to some faults. While three of them were working till yesterday, today all of them stopped working and the entire area went waterless. Till yesterday, we had arranged water supply through submersible pumps and tankers but residents said that was not sufficient enough. So we sat on a dharna for four hours after which the authorities got into action,” he said.

As the residents announced indefinite dharna at 12 noon, the officials from MC, including the JE and the SDO, visited the spot with their teams and got all motors repaired in two hours. It was only after the entire water supply got resumed that they lifted the dharna. The work of operating and maintaining of motors had been given to a contractor, whose tenure got over recently and the MC officials did not extend his contract.