Water scarcity parches ward

Water scarcity parches ward
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Hailakandi
June 3: The public health engineering department of Hailakandi has admitted its failure to supply water to a number of wards for shortage of electricity.
Gaurangapally area under ward number one of Hailakandi town has been deprived of clean drinking water for the past few years.
The residents have been paying Rs 50 every month to the local municipal board as water tax but don’t receive a drop in return.
Residents said they are forced to buy drinking water from nearby localities and use dirty water from the ponds for household chores.
They met the chairman of the municipal board several times, but that did not help matters much.
The residents of the area are also annoyed with the ward commissioner.
“This is not happening in a rural area but in a town where the basic facilities should be made available to the people,” a resident said. The ward commissioner, Shivani Paul, when contacted, refused to comment.
If scarcity of water was not bad enough, the people of the area have alleged that the municipality does not clear the drains.
Garbage and gutter water inundates the houses after every shower. The Hailakandi unit of All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) have also alleged that the PHE is supplying the dirty and impure water in other parts of the town too. Source: Telegraph India