Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation ( PCMC ) has expressed inability to supply water to villages located in PMRDA limits. This comes a few days after the PMRDA commissioner, in a letter to the civic body, said that the civic bodies must provide water to villages located within a 5 km radius as per the rules. Municipal commissioner Shekhar Singh, in his letter to PMRDA, said that the water supply situation in PCMC is already strained.
The civic body finds it difficult to provide water to its own people, hence it is not possible to provide water to areas outside its jurisdiction, he said. A senior PMRDA official said they were yet to see the letter from the PCMC commissioner. "We will take an appropriate decision once we go through it," he said.
Singh said the population in Pimpri Chinchwad had increased to approximately 35 lakh and the current stock of water was not adequate to fulfil the needs of all. The civic body supplies water on alternate days. The work of Pawana closed pipeline and Bhama Askhed Projects is likely to be completed in another three to four years, when the situation is likely to be normalised in the twin city.
"It would not be possible for PCMC to supply water outside its limits (at present). The PMRDA and local bodies should work on implementing water supply schemes at their level," Singh said in his letter to PMRDA. PMRDA commissioner Yogesh Mhase had earlier said that PMC, PCMC, and municipal councils were responsible for supplying water to rura.
