Taps in City Chowk running dry for six years

AURANGABAD: Demanding regular water supply, residents of City Chowk area on Monday staged demonstration in front of the civic body. More than 5,000 affected people shouted slogans against the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for supplying insufficient water to the area for the past many days and levying water bills despite some of them submitting memorandums complaining of no water supply to their areas.
Leading the agitation, Irshad Khan, resident of Rohila Galli in Latakaranja area, said that nearly 5,000 houses in around five localities in City Chowk area were not receiving tap water for the past six years. “Residents have been constantly raising the issue but the AMC officials are not paying heed. The taps in these houses are running dry for six years now,” he said.
Expressing his anger Abdul Majeeb Khan, resident of Deodi Bazaar, said that citizens of around five colonies including Ghas Mandi, Lotakaranja, Kala Darwaza, Deodi Bazaar were having a harrowing time depending just on borewells, which generally go dry during summers and they have to spend from their pocket to hire tankers.
“Despite submitting memorandums to the civic chief about a dozen times no action has been initiated to solve our problems with all our pleas falling on deaf ears,” said Irshad Khan.
“Adding to our woes many citizens despite submitting letters to the civic body that they have not been receiving water since past six years have been slapped with water bills by the AMC,” he said.
“We have been requesting the civic body to install a new pipeline but to no avail,” another resident Ghulam Jilani said.