New Delhi: As Delhi is affected by a water disaster, AAP chief and DelhiĀ Minister Atishi Marlena wrote a letter to the Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora and urged him to deploy the police personnel throughout the foremost pipelines of the nationwide capital to guard it from miscreants.
In the letter to the commissioner, She requested police personnel to patrol and shield our main pipelines for the subsequent 15 days.
“To stop miscreants or people with ulterior motives from tampering with water pipelines which have now become Delhi’s lifelines. At this juncture, any foul play and sabotage will worsen the already difficult water shortage being faced by the people of Delhi,” stated within the letter, ANI reported.
She additional stated that the Delhi Jal Board has patrolling groups for our most important water distribution community which carries uncooked water to the Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) after which from our WTPs to our most important underground reservoirs in numerous elements of the town.
Atishi stated that the bottom patrolling crew discovered broken water provide pipelines in locations like South Delhi Rising Mains which carries water from Sonia Vihar WTP to South Delhi.Ā
“This was near the DTL substation in Garhi Medhu. Our patrolling team found that several large 375 mm bolts and one 12-inch bolt had been cut from the pipeline, causing the leakage- The fact that several large bolts had been cut seems to indicate foul play and sabotage,” she stated in a letter.
Atishi additional talked about that the upkeep crew labored for six hours to repair the leakage subject, worsening the water scarcity in South Delhi.
“Our maintenance team worked for six hours continuously and repaired the leakage, but this meant that we had to stop pumping water for 6 hours and 20 MGD of water was not pumped during this time. As a consequence, a further 25 per cent of water shortage will be experienced in South Delhi,” the letter learn.
