Shillong, Oct 3: The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) youth wing on Wednesday met, Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister, Samlin Malgniang and brought to the notice of the state government the quality of drinking water supplied to the people of Shillong city.
In the memorandum to the PHE Minister, the KHNAM youth wing called for the need to have a water policy or a “drinking water guidelines and regulations” to ensure that all human beings within the state have access to safe drinking water.
According to KHNAM youth wing president Thomas Passah, they had carried out a brief survey on the quality of drinking water from residence of various localities in Shillong city.
“It has been brought out that the water supplied to households appeared to be greasy/oily which have brought fear to the minds of many,” Passah pointed out.
The KHNAM youth wing said that they had approached the previous government on several occasions in after substantial proof was found that the drinking water supplied to the citizen of the state is unsafe and contaminated.
“We have also put up concerns over the PHE Mawphlang for not having a Microbiologist in its establishment to certify quality of drinking water.
The pathetic/unhygienic condition of pipelines supplying water to adjacent localities from Khlieh Iew was also intimated to the government for necessary action,” the KHNAM youth wing stated.