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After facing water shortage for days at a stretch, residents of DLF Phase-I, Sector 26, and DLF Phase-II, Sector 25, have decided to carry out a protest march on May 30 from Arjun Marg to Gurgaon deputy commissioner’s office and hand over a memorandum over inaction by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) over the issue.
The local councillor Rama Rani Rathi told City Spidey, said, “We have been pressurising HUDA to supply water tankers in the locality. But, we need a permanent solution for water and power supply.” She added that she has appealed to residents to assemble in large numbers for the protest.
The upscale residential colony has been facing acute water shortage for past 15 days and while HUDA officials admit that there is a problem, they have not been able to solve it.
Yash Pal, HUDA administrator, said, “DLF City Phase- I and Phase-II are connected with Basai water treatment plant, but due to the distance between these residential colonies and the plant, pressure of water supply is low in these areas. The concerns of the residents are genuine and we have been working hard to solve the problem.”
According to HUDA officials, there is not a single water booster station in the region to control or maintain pressure of water coming from Basai water treatment plant. As a result, residents have become dependent on water tankers.
Fluctuation in power supply has also aggravated the problem. According to RS Rathi, RWA president of Qutub Enclave in DLF Phase-I, “The civic body of Gurgaon is irresponsible and several calls made to them about erratic supply of water has fallen on deaf ears. Although water and power bodies are connected to one another, there is no coordination between the two. The voltage drops mostly during the scheduled time of water supply. HUDA and DHBVN don’t even care to respond to our complaints.”
