Dehra Dun: It has been 12 years that Uttarakhand got
statehood and while the condition of health and education are in a
deplorable state, the deteriorating law and order situation, with day
light murders in posh colonies, forcing even the lawyers to call for a
Doon Bandh, has almost made it the crime capital of the world.
But what perhaps says a lot of the utter neglect of the ‘aam aadmi’
in the state is the fact that the different state governments in the
last 12 years have not been able to provide even safe drinking water to
the citizens in the capital city. For those who have water purifiers the
water may be safe but for thousands, including school going children,
it is a health hazard.
According to a survey conducted by an NGO, which took samples from 40
different localities of the state capital, they were shocked to find
that there had been no chlorination done of the water being supplied in
24 localities of the city. In many of the areas, one could not even make
tea from the direct tap water.
The survey indicated that ‘faecal coliform’ was found in almost all
the samples that had been taken and in some of the samples it was way
above the permissible limit. The worst affected were the Nashville Road
and Ajabpur localities. The only two localities that did not have faecal
coliform in the water are Dilaram Bazaar and Kalidas Road.
Informed sources revealed that perhaps the worst hit area is the Arya
Nagar locality, where water is being directly supplied from a water
source at Gagoli, near Mussoorie without being treated or filtered.
Residents of the area claimed they have been complaining to the jal
Nigam for the past two years, but to no avail.
However, the concerned authorities claimed that every month about 200
water samples are checked at the Dilaram Chowk located laboratory and
it is cross checked with a laboratory at Roorkee, but no contamination
has been found in the water.
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