PMC is supplying less water to Manjri
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Ravi Karandeekar
Dec 21, 2013, 6:27:09 PM12/21/13
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Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation braces itself for the merger of 35 fringe villages to its jurisdiction, one of the villages has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in Bombay High Court, seeking regular water supply from the civic body with immediate effect.
The premise of the litigation is the State Government rule that the civic body should supply water to its villages that lie with the five kilometer periphery of the city limits. Manjari, a village come beyond Hadapsar has contested that PMC is not fulfilling this responsibility.
“The corporation is collecting water charges for 27 lakh litres from the grampanchayat, but supplying only 1.5 lakh litres,” informed Manjari’s deputy sarpanch, Shivraj Ghule, who has filed the PIL.
He pointed out that 1.5 lakh litre is sorely inadequate for the village’s population of 37,400. “Government estimation is that rural folks need 135 litre of water per day per person, this means we should get a supply of 50.5 lakh litres of water per day,” he added.
PMC is not particularly concerned about this math. “It is a fringe village with no proper water supply network in place. Our supply to them is in proportion to the capacity of the existing water lines,” explained V G Kulkarni, head of water supply department.
Manjari has in fact put up a Rs 50 crore proposal to the State government for laying its water supply network. It wants PMC to fund the 10 per cent the village is expected chip in for the project.
That apart, pending the project’s completion, the village has contended that PMC should supply the required water to the village. “The corporation has done so in Phursungi and Urali-Devachi villages. They should do the same here,” Ghule insisted.
“We took this onus on ourselves for Phursungi and Urali-Devachi as their ground water got contaminated by our garbage dumping. We supplied water through tankers. However, rising population has made the water supplied with tankers inadequate.
The premise of the litigation is the State Government rule that the civic body should supply water to its villages that lie with the five kilometer periphery of the city limits. Manjari, a village come beyond Hadapsar has contested that PMC is not fulfilling this responsibility.
“The corporation is collecting water charges for 27 lakh litres from the grampanchayat, but supplying only 1.5 lakh litres,” informed Manjari’s deputy sarpanch, Shivraj Ghule, who has filed the PIL.
He pointed out that 1.5 lakh litre is sorely inadequate for the village’s population of 37,400. “Government estimation is that rural folks need 135 litre of water per day per person, this means we should get a supply of 50.5 lakh litres of water per day,” he added.
PMC is not particularly concerned about this math. “It is a fringe village with no proper water supply network in place. Our supply to them is in proportion to the capacity of the existing water lines,” explained V G Kulkarni, head of water supply department.
Manjari has in fact put up a Rs 50 crore proposal to the State government for laying its water supply network. It wants PMC to fund the 10 per cent the village is expected chip in for the project.
That apart, pending the project’s completion, the village has contended that PMC should supply the required water to the village. “The corporation has done so in Phursungi and Urali-Devachi villages. They should do the same here,” Ghule insisted.
“We took this onus on ourselves for Phursungi and Urali-Devachi as their ground water got contaminated by our garbage dumping. We supplied water through tankers. However, rising population has made the water supplied with tankers inadequate.
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