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Gulbarga residents stage `rasta roko' demanding water

Special Correspondent

Water not supplied from overhead tank

GULBARGA: Residents of the Veerendra Patil GDA Layout on the outskirts of the city on Monday staged three-hour rasta roko on the busy Ripponpalli-Waghdhari inter-State highway demanding drinking water through pipelines.

Discussions

The Headquarters Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, Ravi Kiran Vanti, and the Gulbarga Development Authority Commissioner, Choudhary, and senior officials of the Gulbarga City Corporation who held detailed discussions with the residents later agreed to resume supply of drinking water to the layout from the overhead tank, which has been constructed in the layout, from Monday.

Majority of the borewells in the locality had dried up forcing the residents to depend on the water supplied by the city corporation authorities by tankers.

The residents, led by Shivaji Uploankar and Anaveerappa Nagore, in their memorandum alleged that even after the connection of the main water pipeline to the overhead tank, authorities are not supplying drinking water from the tank.

The layout with more than 250 houses has already been connected with pipelines from the overhead tank and the residents are waiting for the connection of the main water pipeline from the Bhima to the overhead tank for supply of drinking water to their locality.

Supply by tankers

The residents alleged that the city corporation officials, in connivance with contractors who supplied water through tankers, decided to postpone the release of water from the overhead tank.

They refused to accept the offer of the corporation officials to increase the frequency of supply of drinking water through tankers to their locality and wanted the release of water from the overhead tank immediately.

The Gulbarga Development Authority Commissioner said the authority had paid Rs. 1 crore for the construction of the overhead tank and pipeline connection to individual houses to the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board and it is the responsibility of the city corporation to inaugurate the drinking water scheme.

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