Water Standposts for 587 Slums in India

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to install water standposts in 587 slums here to tide over the acute drinking water crisis

While BMC will fund the project, the public health and engineering organisation (PHEO) will install those. The corporation has earmarked nearly Rs 8 crore for the project.

According to official sources, the PHEO will provide a list of places where pipes have been laid to the BMC so that the standposts can be put up. Tubewells will be sunk in localities that have no pipes.

PHEO chief engineer Khitis Sahu said more than 1,000 standposts will be required to cater to all slums. "Some slums already have standposts. We will have to see whether they are sufficient and to put up more according to the ratio of one standpost for 25 households," said Sahu. He added many newly-created wards have no standpost at all.

At present, the city has 1,353 standposts in 67 wards. With inclusion of more areas under BMC and increase in the number of wards from 60 to 67 after delimitation, more than 100 slums came under the civic body. Since March, slum dwellers have been complaining of water shortage. They have to carry buckets in bicycle to nearby standpost and make a long queue to get water.

Residents, however, feel that the project should have come up before March so that during the summer, people would have availed the water.

Source: The Times of India

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