Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation under fire over water cut for 48 hours

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) faced the ire of citizens after failing to provide sufficient water supply to the city for 48 hours. Facing problems, residents reached out to the administration and demanded answers for the prolonged disruption in the water supply. Belapur resident, 54-year-old Sudhir Dhani, said they had to beg for water for two days, a Hindustan Times report mentioned.

The NMMC had announced a 24-hour cut in the water supply on April 6 for April 10. According to the report, the move was undertaken as the civic body planned to shift the Morbe main pipeline at Chikhale for the Panvel-Karjat railway line and cross the water supply mainline at the Diva-Panvel railway line below the expressway bridge at Kalamboli. The engineering department of the civic body also decided to do the maintenance work of the Bhokarpada water treatment plant and Morbe dam to Digha main pipeline. The water supply was supposed to resume after 10 pm on April 11.Nerul-based activist Anarajit Chauhan was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that the NMMC could have undertaken the work in winter when the consumption of water per capita is less than in summer. Chauhan is set to file an RTI to unveil the mismanagement. Koparkhairane, Belapur and Ghansoli areas were affected the most due to the disruption in the water supply. Senior officials of the water department ensured that the situation would be resolved at the earliest.