NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government policy of offering 20 kilo litres of unfastened water around the board for home use and stated "nothing should be given free" except the deficient want it.
"Nothing should be given free to anybody. Charge 10 paise or one paisa. Nothing should be given free, except where people really need it like the poor," stated a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar.
The bench noticed that offering unfastened water to other people residing within the slum clusters might be permitted but not for those who may afford it.
Meanwhile, the state of Haryana government advised the court that it had floated tenders for repairing the Delhi Sub Branch Canal (DSBC), which also carries water to the national capital, besides the Munak canal.
The tenders can be opened in June and the paintings used to be expected to be completed in four months, the Haryana government stated.
The court asked the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to tell on the next date of listening to whether there used to be any policy to keep watch over ground water usage, as non-public firms were draining the water desk of the national capital.
The court has indexed the subject for additional listening to on July 23.
The court used to be listening to a plea, filed via suggest S.B. Tripathi, who has sought direction for the DJB to offer 100 per cent sewage facility in the entire town and the Central government to offer monetary help to the DJB for the paintings.
The plea stated that in 2016, the DJB had advised the court that most effective 55 per cent of the Delhi inhabitants used to be covered with sewage facility and there used to be no sewage facility available to the remainder 45 per cent.
Tripathi has stated as 330 cusecs of water used to be provided via Haryana via a "kutcha" canal, 50 per cent of water used to be being misplaced due to seepage and Delhi got most effective about 170-180 cusec water per day.
"Nothing should be given free to anybody. Charge 10 paise or one paisa. Nothing should be given free, except where people really need it like the poor," stated a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar.
The bench noticed that offering unfastened water to other people residing within the slum clusters might be permitted but not for those who may afford it.
Meanwhile, the state of Haryana government advised the court that it had floated tenders for repairing the Delhi Sub Branch Canal (DSBC), which also carries water to the national capital, besides the Munak canal.
The tenders can be opened in June and the paintings used to be expected to be completed in four months, the Haryana government stated.
The court asked the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to tell on the next date of listening to whether there used to be any policy to keep watch over ground water usage, as non-public firms were draining the water desk of the national capital.
The court has indexed the subject for additional listening to on July 23.
The court used to be listening to a plea, filed via suggest S.B. Tripathi, who has sought direction for the DJB to offer 100 per cent sewage facility in the entire town and the Central government to offer monetary help to the DJB for the paintings.
The plea stated that in 2016, the DJB had advised the court that most effective 55 per cent of the Delhi inhabitants used to be covered with sewage facility and there used to be no sewage facility available to the remainder 45 per cent.
Tripathi has stated as 330 cusecs of water used to be provided via Haryana via a "kutcha" canal, 50 per cent of water used to be being misplaced due to seepage and Delhi got most effective about 170-180 cusec water per day.
HC crticises Delhi govt for free water scheme
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