New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena got here down closely on the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for intentionally denying consuming water and sewerage connections to slum dwellers at a current assembly of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).
DJB Vice-Chairman and AAP MLA Somnath Bharti, who can be an Authority Member, was current on the assembly.
Saxena termed this deliberate stonewalling on the a part of the DJB that was depriving the poorest of the poor with one thing as primary as water, as unlucky and requested Somnath Bharti to keep away from enjoying politics when it got here to the welfare of the individuals of Delhi.
It could also be famous that the requests from DDA for the availability of water and laying of sewer strains is pending with the DJB since as early as 2013 within the case of Kalkaji and 2017 within the case of Jailorwala Bagh, the discharge said. Taking sturdy exception to welfare of the poorest of the poor being put to political ransom by the DJB, LG Saxena identified that simply over the last one month, he had allotted 17 items of land to the DJB for its numerous tasks. The DDA or the LG had not demanded to barter the land given to DJB with water provide to the slum rehabilitation tasks, the discharge learn. “Thousands of slum dwellers from the Kalkaji Bhoomiheen Camp, who were shifted to modern multi-storey flats in November last year, are facing acute water crisis with Delhi Jal Board under AAP CM Arvind Kejriwal refusing to provide drinking water to the occupants of these flats. DDA has been supplying water to these people through tankers,” it learn.
The AAP Government has been sitting over the DDA’s request to offer water provide to the undertaking that homes greater than 2000 households. This intransigence on the a part of DJB is even supposing it had accredited the drawings for laying of pipelines for water provide and sewerage means again in 2019 following DDA’s demand to this impact in 2014, it learn. DDA, which had made all required funds on this regard in 2019 itself, has been writing constantly to the DJB, the final being a letter from VC (DDA) to CEO (DJB) on May 24, 2023. Similarly, for the Jailorwala Bagh in situ rehabilitation undertaking that’s prepared for possession by one other 1800 slum dweller households, the DJB has not until now even cleared the drawings for the laying down of water and sewer pipelines, regardless of the request to this impact having been made by the DDA way back to in 2017. Persistent stonewalling by DJB led to the VC (DDA) escalating the matter to the Lt. Governor by means of a letter on June 2, 2023, it additional mentioned.
Thereafter, the matter was taken up by the Lt Governor within the Authority assembly of DDA, the place Member of the Authority, MLA Somnath Bharti, who can be the Vice-Chairman of DJB, was current and cornered, it learn. The Kalkaji in situ rehabilitation undertaking of the DDA that may home over 3000 slum dweller households was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 2, 2022, when he handed over keys to the beneficiaries at a broadly reported perform in Vigyan Bhawan. Similarly, the Jailorwala Bagh Project of the DDA which might home 1800 households is prepared for allotment to slum dwellers, however it but doesn’t have the important water provide and sewerage pipeline laid, within the absence ofclearance by the Kejriwal Government, the discharge mentioned. (ANI)