Residents of Gautam Buddha Nagar present in the reader panel meeting held at Dainik Jagran office located in Noida Sector-63. Awakening
Jagran correspondent, Noida. There is a water supply system in Gautam Buddha Nagar. Responsibility is fixed for monitoring and improving this system. There is serious negligence on the part of the administrators who run the system. Clean water is not being provided to every house in the district.
Residents of Noida-Greater Noida gathered in the discussion organized at Dainik Jagran office on Monday. There was discussion that both the cities should not become Indore. Gave suggestions on better water supply. The shortcomings of Noida and Greater Noida Authority were exposed on many points. 70 percent of the population of the district is still deprived of clean water. Consumers are not aware of the quality of water reaching their homes.
NOFA (Noida Federation of Apartment Owners Association) President Rajeev Singh said that Noida has completed 49 years of its establishment. This will be the 50th. The hardness of the water supplied to the houses here has not reduced. The report on the quality of water reaching homes from the authority's UGR should be made public.
Water quality reports from places where water is stored before reaching homes should be shared with residents daily. Phonerwa President Yogendra Sharma said that the sewer and water lines are old. This should be changed. The authority should treat and supply water from WTP in the city. The issue of replacing dilapidated pipelines has also been raised several times.
NOFA General Secretary Surejit Das Gupta said that the water supply line including UGR should be audited. This report should be shared with residents for transparency. The standards of cleanliness of the tanks built in the society should be decided by the authority. Konerva President PS Jain said that the authority should treat the groundwater and take it into UGR.
After this, main supply should be provided to the homes. The concerned should be informed about when the UGR was cleaned. Bharat Valecha said that the sewer lines in old sectors are made of concrete. This is out of date. The pipeline leaks from many places. Sewer water gets mixed into it. Both lines should be replaced.
Sector-50 Block-F RWA President Rajesh Singh said that water from a borewell is supplied to many sectors through a several km long line. If every sector is supplied from one borewell then the pipeline will be short. Defects can be easily detected in small areas.
Contaminated water will not be supplied in long stretches. Executive President of Noida Citizen Forum, Shalini Singh said that under Article 21 of the Constitution, it is the responsibility of the authority to provide clean water to the citizens of Noida. In 40 years, clean water has not been provided to every citizen. In this way Noida will not be able to become a world class city.
The forum demands that till every citizen of Noida gets access to clean water, the authority should list it on top priority in its agenda in every board meeting. Sector-27 RWA President Rajeev Garg said that a monitoring committee should be formed to check the water supply.
RWA President of Sector-36, Anita Singh said that even today the plans in Noida are like an industrial city. There is no attention in providing facilities in residential areas. Don't want to see Noida as an underdeveloped city after coming in hope of prosperity. Nowra (Noida Village Residents Welfare Association) Ranjan Tomar said that Citizen Charter was the first in Noida area.
The complaints registered here were resolved and their accountability was decided. It is not there anymore. It should start. There should be a panel related to water supply and testing. Before the board meeting of the authority, a meeting should be held with the people and suggestions should be taken. Ravi Yadav, resident of Soharkha, said that a sewer line has been laid in the village. Connection not given.
People added the connections themselves. Now the sewer line is leaking and flowing into the roads and drains. Sewer water is seeping from the ground and reaching homes through borewells. Work should be done to connect the sewer line to the main line by providing connection in the village. Harola resident Ved Pradhan said that the first tank for supply in Noida was completed in Sector-5.
Today, 90 percent of the people in Haraula village do not have water supply. The lines where the supply is being supplied are also not cleaned properly. Harola resident Satish Pramukh said that the water lines of the village are old. It does not work systematically. The lines should be changed and inserted according to the population.
Ankit Arora from NCF said that there are no alternative arrangements if the supply of Ganga water is disrupted. TDS should be monitored and its reports should be shared with residents daily. Awareness campaigns should be run on a large scale through campaigns and videos, photos regarding water conservation.
Complaints should not be suppressed but resolved
Recently, dozens of people fell ill due to contaminated water in Greater Noida. There is supply here from the authority. Sector Alpha-2 of Greater Noida was also affected. RWA President Subhash Abadi said that the population in the sector is not much. There is space also. Clean water could not be supplied here by the authority.
The complainant himself is suppressed on the complaint. In case of excessive complaints the supply is stopped. This dictatorial attitude will not work. Senior officials of the authority will have to get down to the ground for work. NEFOVA President Abhishek Singh said that accountability for water supply should be fixed from the authority to the society management.
Both deflect responsibility on each other for contaminated or poor water supply. Water is the right of every citizen. Dipankar Kumar said that corruption is the biggest reason for poor water supply. Even bad water is given to people as if it is of good quality. Those responsible for the illness were examined and the report was found to be fine.
At the same time, if the patient gets himself examined then all the shortcomings are revealed. Naval Singh Nu, AOA President of GreenArk, said that 90 percent of STPs and ETPs do not work in societies, big companies and factories. These should be started effectively. Untreated water is being released into rivers and drains.
It is getting mixed in groundwater. The groundwater is then reaching homes. By operating STP and ETP, water can be saved and the quality of ground water can be improved. Girish Shukla, founder of Neki ke Dibba, said that water is a serious issue. There should be transparency in its supply.
Eros Sampoornam Society resident and Municipal Association Director Durgesh Khandelwal said that the power supply in the society is supplied by only one motor. There is no alternative arrangement here. In case of fault, there should also be provision for an alternative motor.
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