IRREGULAR POWER rostering in the city causes immense difficulties to the people in general and patients and zoo inmates in particular.
They all suffer from acute shortage of water due to KESCo’s erratic power supply. Sometimes the power supply is snapped at midnight for a period of five hours while on the other occasion from 3.30 am to 5.30 am. It is once again imposed from 8 am and continued till 2 in the afternoon.
It becomes very difficult for the hospital and the zoo authorities to store adequate water for the daily use. Storage of water in the zoo or in the hospitals is managed through tubewells, which could not be run for want of power.
Though these departments have generators but they do not have enough funds to run them.
Besides fixing of duty of the employees for storing water also becomes a tedious job. The departments have to incur overtime expense because often the employees had to stay after the duty hours to ensure storage of water.
In the hospitals, the attendants have to buy bucketful of water at high premium to meet the water requirements. But, in zoo it becomes impossible to meet the requirement of water for the animals during summer. The zoo authorities have to take tedious exercise to replace water in wet moats and in the ponds created for Rhinos, Hippos and bears.
For ordinary citizens who do not have facility of generators and tubewells, the water availability becomes very acute. According to KESCo the Jal Sansthan is exempted from the power rostering.
{{/usCountry}}For ordinary citizens who do not have facility of generators and tubewells, the water availability becomes very acute. According to KESCo the Jal Sansthan is exempted from the power rostering.
{{/usCountry}}But, the storage tanks in different localities are run with the rostering-hit power lines and when the roistering starts, the water supply in the localities is also stopped.
Jal Sansthan supplies water in the fixed hours in the morning and evening.
It does not supply water during the day. Maximum period for water supply is two to three hours, which is quite inadequate to cater to the needs of millions of people of the city. Most of the roadside pumps are either lying dry or idle and are of no use to the citizens.