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Guntur dist in grip of severe water crisis
Communist Party of India leaders staged dharna at Guntur Municipal Corporation office on Monday demanding the officials take steps to solve drinking water problem. The CPI activists sat before the GMC office and raised slogans against the officials.
Guntur: Communist Party of India leaders staged dharna at Guntur Municipal Corporation office on Monday demanding the officials take steps to solve drinking water problem. The CPI activists sat before the GMC office and raised slogans against the officials. Addressing the dharna, the CPI state assistant secretary Muppalla Nageswara Rao said that residents of Macherla, Repalle, Bapatla, and Palnadu region are facing severe drinking water problem before onset of summer.
He said residents of over two hundred villages in the district are crying for drinking water. He said, in Guntur city residents of Pragathi Nagar and Chandra Rajeswara Rao Nagar are facing acute drinking water scarcity. He said the government has released Rs.12.60crore for Guntur district to solve drinking water problem and added that this amount is not enough to solve drinking water problem.
He further said that when the GMC is not supplying sufficient water, the people are consuming dirty water. He said that drinking water tanks have dried in the district and groundwater tables fell to a record level due to deficit rainfall and high temperature. He urged the officials to solve drinking water problem.Communist Party of India, district secretary Jangala Ajay Kumar demanded the GMC officials to lay drinking water pipelines to Pragathinagar and Chandra Rajeswara Rao Nagar and supply sufficient drinking water.
He warned that if the GMC did not take steps to solve drinking water problem, they would intensify their agitation. Later, Muppalla Nageswara Rao and Jangala Ajay Kumar submitted a memorandum to GMC commissioner S.Nagalaskhmi to solve drinking water problem. Nagalakshmi assured that she will take steps to solve drinking water problem in the city. CPI Guntur city secretary K.Malyadri, CPI leaders N.Chinni, B.Srinu Reddy, Kumar Naik, T.Deva Naik were among those participated in the dharna programme.
