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The supply of drinking water has been suspended in the entire area of Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) over the past two days due to shifting of main pipelines for the ongoing construction of the Asian Highway Project II, connecting Nepal and Bangladesh via India, in Fulbari area.
The SMC authorities said the water supply was disrupted due to shifting of the main water pipelines at Fulbari for the ongoing work of the Asian Highway II.
Though the SMC issued a notification, people had to suffer because of scarcity of drinking water in the past two days.
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The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department lifts water from Teesta canal for purification at the water treatment plant at Fulbari and supplies required purified drinking water for the people under SMC area.
Residents of all 47 wards of the SMC depend on the supply of drinking water and thus had a harrowing time in the past two days.
Member of mayor-in-council, water supply, SMC, Saradindu Chakrabarty on Friday visited the site to take stock of the situation and said, “For the past two days the drinking water supply in the SMC area has been affected due to the shifting of the water pipe due to the works of Asian Highway II at Fulbari.
“The PHE engineers are trying their level best to restore the pipe. We are hopeful that the water supply will be resumed from Saturday.”
Besides shifting of main pipelines, the ongoing work has disrupted water supply in this region by damaging pipeline during excavation works on the western side of the existing road.
Excavators have frequently damaged (in photograph) the main pipe line for the SMC in Fulbari area.
Drinking water supply was suspended in the rural belt, close to Uttarkanya, in areas adjoining SMC ward no 32 due to ongoing work of the Asian Highway Project. Thousands of residents of the adjoining rural belt depend on the SMC water supply in ward no 32, close to Teesta Pally.
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