11 years on, no area in city getting 24x7 water supply, reveals NMC & OCW data

Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), and Orange City Water Private Limited (OCW) have revealed that not a single locality in the water command areas is getting 24x7 water supply. After consistently claiming for years that 34 of 103 water command areas are getting 24x7 water supply, the civic body and its contractor have now said that 32 water command areas are getting 18-24 hours water supply.TOI had on April 26 reported that MLC and BJP city president Pravin Datke exposed the claims of supply of 24x7 water by NMC and OCW in areas under Qilla Water Command Area. In front of all concerned officials, Datke, also former mayor, himself contacted residents on mobile phone numbers shared by NMC and OCW officials, and confirmed water was being supplied for only four hours and not 24x7.Datke later sought factual data of water command areas getting 24x7 water. Shockingly, NMC and OCW did not claim 24x7 water supply in a single command area in the data sent to Datke. These agencies clearly mentioned 18-24-hour supply in 32 command areas.Under JNNURM, the central government had sanctioned over ₹1,100 crore between 2006 and 2009 for improving infrastructure and supplying 24x7 water to entire city by March 31, 2012. NMC engaged OCW from March 1, 2012, and set deadline of five years, which ended on March 31, 2017.A joint venture of Veolia India and Vishvaraj Infrastructure, OCW claimed to have converted some command areas into 24x7 from 2017.
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