KOLKATA: A drinking water provide mission at a KMC-owned belongings in Babubagan, which might have benefited 1 lakh residents in Dhakuria, has been postponed indefinitely, hanging the Rs 2 crore mission in limbo following sustained protests from participants of a popular club who have been organizing Durga Puja at the venue for the previous 36 years.
Unable to damage the jinx, KMC has been compelled to appear out for a distinct web site for the booster pumping station, across the Dhakuria-Selimpur area, but engineers stated transferring the mission, whose paintings order has been issued, would prolong it and escalate the cost.
TOI had reported ultimate month how a section of puja organizers of Babubagan Durgotsav Committee have been combating engineers from beginning paintings at the web site for a number of months.
Construction of the pumping station was scheduled to begin in August. It, on the other hand, got not on time on account of objections raised via the committee, bringing up encroachment via the construction staff sooner than Puja. When KMC attempted to resume paintings in November, the club participants continued their protest, saying the construction paintings, which will span one and a half years, will encroach upon a portion of the bottom, leading to a discount within the collection of stalls given out on hire all through Durga Puja.
“We have attempted to reason why with the puja organizers that a majority of work can be underground and would not encroach a lot on Babubagan Culture Ground. But they're adamant and a few influential people are lobbying to shift the venue,” stated a KMC engineer.
The stalled mission would have ensured handled water for other people dwelling in Babubagan, Dhakuria, Selimpur, Jodhpur Park, Maharaja Thakur Road and AT Chatterjee Road, where other people still depend on tube wells. KMC had additionally found arsenic in Ramgarh, slightly 2km from the proposed web site at Dhakuria. As a end result, the residents are actually either compelled to drink the unsafe water from tube wells and people who can find the money for purchase packaged drinking water.
“We had been reeling under a severe water crisis for years now. A ray of hope was observed when the KMC decided to set up the water mission in Babubagan. But now we've been told that selection sites are being considered. This is sheer injustice,” stated Jayanta Majumdar, a banker and a resident of Babubagan.
Local CPI councillor Madhuchhanda Deb, who have been instrumental in setting up the booster pumping station at Dhakuria, feels the mission is being misplaced on account of selfish motives of a section of other people.
Trinamool leaders, too, had been disappointed with the protestes. “How can other people oppose a developmental mission sanctioned from Nabanna and being built on KMC land? If need be, local residents, regardless of political affiliations, would come to the roads and protest against such anti-developmental attitude,” stated Prabir Chakraborty, the previous block president of the ward.
“We are not against building of the pumping station. A spot is being known for the proposed mission. Nothing has been decided as but,” stated Sujata Gupta, treasurer of the puja committee.
Unable to damage the jinx, KMC has been compelled to appear out for a distinct web site for the booster pumping station, across the Dhakuria-Selimpur area, but engineers stated transferring the mission, whose paintings order has been issued, would prolong it and escalate the cost.
TOI had reported ultimate month how a section of puja organizers of Babubagan Durgotsav Committee have been combating engineers from beginning paintings at the web site for a number of months.
Construction of the pumping station was scheduled to begin in August. It, on the other hand, got not on time on account of objections raised via the committee, bringing up encroachment via the construction staff sooner than Puja. When KMC attempted to resume paintings in November, the club participants continued their protest, saying the construction paintings, which will span one and a half years, will encroach upon a portion of the bottom, leading to a discount within the collection of stalls given out on hire all through Durga Puja.
“We have attempted to reason why with the puja organizers that a majority of work can be underground and would not encroach a lot on Babubagan Culture Ground. But they're adamant and a few influential people are lobbying to shift the venue,” stated a KMC engineer.
The stalled mission would have ensured handled water for other people dwelling in Babubagan, Dhakuria, Selimpur, Jodhpur Park, Maharaja Thakur Road and AT Chatterjee Road, where other people still depend on tube wells. KMC had additionally found arsenic in Ramgarh, slightly 2km from the proposed web site at Dhakuria. As a end result, the residents are actually either compelled to drink the unsafe water from tube wells and people who can find the money for purchase packaged drinking water.
“We had been reeling under a severe water crisis for years now. A ray of hope was observed when the KMC decided to set up the water mission in Babubagan. But now we've been told that selection sites are being considered. This is sheer injustice,” stated Jayanta Majumdar, a banker and a resident of Babubagan.
Local CPI councillor Madhuchhanda Deb, who have been instrumental in setting up the booster pumping station at Dhakuria, feels the mission is being misplaced on account of selfish motives of a section of other people.
Trinamool leaders, too, had been disappointed with the protestes. “How can other people oppose a developmental mission sanctioned from Nabanna and being built on KMC land? If need be, local residents, regardless of political affiliations, would come to the roads and protest against such anti-developmental attitude,” stated Prabir Chakraborty, the previous block president of the ward.
“We are not against building of the pumping station. A spot is being known for the proposed mission. Nothing has been decided as but,” stated Sujata Gupta, treasurer of the puja committee.
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