Severe water crisis in south Kolkata area.
Ratna Roy Majumdar, a CPM councilor alleged that large areas of Bakultala and Parnasree had been reeling under a water crisis.
Banerjee on Monday alleged that repeated requests made to the KMC engineers to solve the crisis have so far gone in vain.As the mercury is steadily rising, lakhs of people in some south Kolkata areas have been affected by a severe water crisis .
Reacting to opposition Left Front’s allegations, mayor Sovan Chatterjee said that effective steps were being taken to ensure that no water crisis existed anywhere in the city.
Left Front councilors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Monday boycotted the civic body’s monthly meeting in protest against the civic administration’s apathy to mitigate water crisis at a time when summer heat is becoming intolerable.Belquis Begum, a CPM councilor of ward 75 complained of prolonged water crisis in Kidderpore.
Perplexed by the sudden development Roychowdhury called a local KMC engineer and requested him to send a water tanker to his place.Faizal Ahmed, owner of a hotel at Wattgung was equally harassed when he found that supply of water to his hotel was not adequate to run it through the day.Sikha Banerjee’s condition, a teacher and a resident of Patuli along EM Bypass was no better.Banerjee has been buying water from the civic body’s water supply department for past three days.
Banerjee on Monday alleged that repeated requests made to the KMC engineers to solve the crisis have so far gone in vain.As the mercury is steadily rising, lakhs of people in some south Kolkata areas have been affected by a severe water crisis .
Some of the worst affected areas include Kidderpore, Wattgung, Garden Reach, Behala, Joka Tollygunge, Jadavpur and EM Bypass.
Left Front councilors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Monday boycotted the civic body’s monthly meeting in protest against the civic administration’s apathy to mitigate water crisis at a time when summer heat is becoming intolerable.Belquis Begum, a CPM councilor of ward 75 complained of prolonged water crisis in Kidderpore.
"Residents of almost every area in Kidderpore and Wattgung faces an acute water scarcity.