Over 100 Jharia residents staged a protest in opposition to the outstanding Bata More Chowk on Sunday afternoon in opposition to numerous water-related points, together with irregular and inadequate provide.
The protesters, representing over 5 lakh dissatisfied residents of Jharia, burned an effigy of the Jharkhand Mineral Area Development Authority(JMADA), and served an ultimatum of 4 days to JMADA Managing Director, Dilip Kumar. They threatened to siege the civic physique’s workplace if their calls for had been met.
Residents of Jharia, for greater than two years, have been going through water provide issues, owing to causes like leakage in outdated, British-era pipelines, and malfunctioning of motors and pumps of Jamadoba based-water therapy plant.
Anup Sao, former councillor of the Ward Number 37 in Jharia, who led the protest, mentioned, “The water supply in Jharia was best in the district and much better than the adjoining Dhanbad town. We used to get regular water supply twice in a day but things gradually started taking a downturn over the past five years. This happened due to the old water supply infrastructure of the JMADA developing issues due to lack of proper maintenance, and wear and tear effect.”
He instructed The Telegraph Online that the availability additional deteriorated within the final two years and regardless of requests, the JMADA didn’t take any steps to higher the water provide infrastructure at Jamboda.
“The lack of regular maintenance is the main reason for the problem. The JMADA is spending huge amounts of money to lay new pipelines but not concentrating on improving the existing infrastructure,” mentioned Satyadeo Singh, a resident of the Hetli Bandh locality.
In a associated growth, Dhanbad MP P.N. Singh, taking cognisance of the issues, wrote a letter right now to Dilip Kumar. He tried to attract his consideration to the issues confronted by residents of a number of localities, together with Fatehpur Lane, Hanuman Gadhi, Niche Rajbari, Dumariyatand, and Hetli Bandh. He mentioned water provide in these areas is being made as soon as in two to a few days.
