Dear Editor,
I wish to bring to Principal Secretary, Jal Shakti Department, Shaleen Kabra’s notice the water supply scenario in Channi Himmat Housing Colony where the officials and operating staff of PHE have created havoc due to poor, inadequate, contaminated and erratic supply of an essential commodity like water despite written assurance given to High Court of Jammu and Kashmir by one of your predecessors on a PIL filed against your department by this association, which is a registered body. For the last so many weeks the supply has been interrupted and giving it only on alternate days and that too for 10-15 minutes. Even the supplies being made to this prestigious colony is dirty and contaminated. You shall be surprised to know that recently some incidents of SNAKES in supplies have come to our notice.
The supply is never regular with missing supplies every second and third day; that due to current scorching hot and humid weather in peak summer season such negligent and missing supplies is causing massive and colossal damage to the civilised society; that there is no time schedule for water supplies. Sometimes 4.00 AM, 6.00AM, 7.00 or 7.30 AM and or 10.30 AM despite other factors like weather &Electricity are running normally.
Pertinent to mention here that most of the residents living in this colony are senior citizens who are forced to wake up whole night waiting for the supply because laying of pipes by PHE infrastructure is such that without pumps and motors supply does not gain height of even one foot;
May we know the reason for such lapses. The steps taken by you and your subordinate officers to resume normal supply of water as also the reason of not communicating erratic and irregular supply and the period of its continuance through media channels (print & electronic).
We urge you to please respond to this request with immediate instructions to the erring staff and communicate urgently to us so that the residents are informed accordingly. I further make a fervent appeal to your good self to direct the high officials of your department to establish an urgent contact with us, listen to our genuine grievances and make necessary mends in their system to restore and improve water supplies in our area.
Thanking your good self and hoping an urgent response in the matter.
Advocate V K Grover
President, Channi Himmat Residents Association (Regd).