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PANAJI
Around 150 residents from Kadamba plateau participated in a one-day Jal Satyagraha on Liberation Day, to protest the government's failure to provide them with tap water supply.
According to the Kadamba Plateau Residents Action Association president Nilesh Joshi, people residing in the four colonies of Uttam Darshan, Government Employees Housing Society, Harvans Vihar and Hill City at Kadamba plateau took part in the Jal Satyagraha.
The Jal Satyagraha began with water dindi from Goverment E
PANAJI
Around 150 residents from Kadamba plateau participated in a one-day Jal Satyagraha on Liberation Day, to protest the government's failure to provide them with tap water supply.
According to the Kadamba Plateau Residents Action Association president Nilesh Joshi, people residing in the four colonies of Uttam Darshan, Government Employees Housing Society, Harvans Vihar and Hill City at Kadamba plateau took part in the Jal Satyagraha.
The Jal Satyagraha began with water dindi from Goverment E
mployees Housing Society and assembled in front of Uttam Darshan.
After freedom fighter Kalindi Juarkar hoisted the national flag, the plateau residents proceeded on a day-long silent fast
"The Jal Satyagraha was conducted without raising any slogans against the government. Except for Chimbel Sarpanch Chandrakant Kavlekar, no political leader or government official was present at the Jal Satyagraha," he added.
"As we were concluding our agitation, St Cruz MLA Tony Fernandes visited protesters to listen to their grievances, but the agitators did not allow him to speak and told him to take action instead," informed Joshi.
Aggrieved on being
deprived of tap water
supply residents said they had submitted several representations to various authorities since 1997, but their efforts had not been fruitful thus far.
They have complained that while surroundings on the plateau receive 42 MLD
of treated tapped water supply, only a mere 0.4 MLD
water required by the
plateau residents has not been given to them by the government so far, which was a violation of their fundamental rights.
After freedom fighter Kalindi Juarkar hoisted the national flag, the plateau residents proceeded on a day-long silent fast
"The Jal Satyagraha was conducted without raising any slogans against the government. Except for Chimbel Sarpanch Chandrakant Kavlekar, no political leader or government official was present at the Jal Satyagraha," he added.
"As we were concluding our agitation, St Cruz MLA Tony Fernandes visited protesters to listen to their grievances, but the agitators did not allow him to speak and told him to take action instead," informed Joshi.
Aggrieved on being
deprived of tap water
supply residents said they had submitted several representations to various authorities since 1997, but their efforts had not been fruitful thus far.
They have complained that while surroundings on the plateau receive 42 MLD
of treated tapped water supply, only a mere 0.4 MLD
water required by the
plateau residents has not been given to them by the government so far, which was a violation of their fundamental rights.
