MAPUSA
Slamming the PWD for irregular water supply in Mapusa, the Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday led a morcha to the office of the PWD office and threatened to take morcha to the PWD minister and the PWD executive engineer if supply was not regularised in the next eight days.
“The government has failed to provide drinking water to residents of Mapusa despite several protests. Water is being diverted to hotels and large commercial buildings at the cost of locals,” said NCP General Secretary Sanjay Barde.
He was speaking to the media after taking a morcha to the PWD office in Mapusa for restoration of proper supply of pipeline water.
Barde along with local residents met PWD Assistant Engineer Mahesh Kenaudekar and brought to his attention the hardship faced by people due to irregular water supply.
Some local residents said they have not received water for the last couple of days while others said they have been getting supply but the pressure was very low. “The pressure of water is so low that many times our sumps do not get full. This has been going on for the last more than a month,” a local informed.
He said common man has been facing a lot of hardship due to irregular water supply.
According to PWD Assistant Engineer Mahesh Kenaudekar, the shortage of water was due to less quantity of water supplied to Mapusa from the Assonora treatment plant. “We have written to senior officers to resolve the water supply issue. Currently we are getting just 9 MLD of water when the actual requirement is around 13 MLD. We are hoping the issue will get resolved sooner than later.”
Churchill is BJP’s agent, charges party GS
MAPUSA: Hitting out at his own party MLA, NCP General Secretary Sanjay Barde described Benaulim’s NCP MLA Churchill Alemao as BJP’s “agent” for going soft on the BJP and mingling openly with the BJP leaders.
“I had no trust in Churchill Alemao from day one. He has been speaking against Congress but never said a word against the BJP. He is BJP’s agent,” alleged Barde.
The NCP general secretary was reacting to a photograph of the Benaulim MLA along with his winning ZP candidate with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and other leaders of the BJP.
Continuing, Barde said he informed the party high command that Churchill was not a person who could be trusted. He further said the NCP will work with like-minded people in the elections.
