Stringent action against misuse of water connections
District Collector Neeraj Mittal has warned of stringent action against unauthorised persons promising drinking water connections to people in town panchayats.The Collector said in a release that he had received complaints of plumbers approaching house owners with such assurances.He said people should follow certain procedures such as directly applying to the town panchayats in the prescribed form. Receipts would be issued on paying connection deposit and other charges. Town panchayats had bylaws governing the release of water connections.People should apply to the Executive Officer in any town panchayat for the connections with a copy of the Property Tax receipt.The form could be obtained on paying a charge fixed for it. After obtaining the estimates, a list of the charges should be got from the Executive Officer.These should be paid to the wing concerned at the local body.Pipes, flow control valves and meter should be purchased by the house owner.After the issue of work order by the Executive Officer, the plumbers would complete the work.
After the officer received all the details of the work completion in writing, he would release the connection.People who had obtained the connections should preserve details/documents such as connection number, order copy, receipt for charges paid while applying for the connection and also the receipt for water consumption charges.If people did not possess these, their connections would deemed as unauthorised, the release said.
