Nagpur News: The tripping of power/transmission for hours together is crippling the water supply to NMC’s high-rise water tanks in Nagpur. The water is not reaching the specific levels in water tanks thus paralyzing the water supply to the entire residential areas in the North, East, and Central Nagpur. The citizens in these areas have been baffled over the irregular water supply, and sometimes no supply at all, when water is seen everywhere.
Nagpur News: The tripping of electricity/transmission at Mahavitaran’s (MSEDCL) Kanhan Water Treatment Plant is gripping the citizens with water shortage. The water consumers of of North, East and Central Nagpur are in the vice like grip of drinking water shortage notwithstanding the rains and only rains everywhere in the Nagpur District.
The tripping of power/transmission for hours together is crippling the water supply to NMC’s high-rise water tanks in Nagpur. The water is not reaching the specific levels in water tanks thus paralyzing the water supply to the entire residential areas in the North, East, and Central Nagpur. The citizens in these areas have been baffled over the irregular water supply, and sometimes no supply at all when water is seen everywhere. The tempers are running high. And, the citizens are on the right side to blame the authorities for this watery dilemma.
However, the main culprit is Mahavitaran (MSEDCL). The frequent and long tripping of electricity/transmission is beyond imagination of a common man. The NMC’s Water Resources Committee Chairman Sudhakar Kohale has written 3-4 letters to MSEDCL informing the authorities of acute water shortage following frequent trippings hitting water storage at a specific level in the high-rise water tanks hard. But the MSEDCL, appears, has thrown the letters in waste baskets.
The Minister of State for Energy Rajendra Mulak is a prominent citizen of Nagpur. He should have directed the MSEDCL authorities to minimize the tripping of power/transmission. But, he too, is doing nothing in this “power” connection, Sudhakar Kohale lamented. Now, the Water Resources Committee Chairman Sudhakar Kohale and other members are leaving for Mumbai to meet Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who is also the Energy Minister and apprise him of the tripping problem.
Following is the record of tripping power/transmission since March, 2012.
Month Tripping period
1) March 2012 15.00 hours
2) April 2012 03.50 hours
3) May 2012 02.35 hours
4) June 2012 12.45 hours
5) July 2012 19.40 hours
6) August 2012 22.30 hours
7) Sept 2012 27.15 hours
8) Oct 2012 10.15 hours
9) Nov 2012 03.30 hours
10) Dec 2012 01.35 hours
11) Jan 2013 01.35 hours
12) Feb 2013 10.15 hours
13) March 2013 01.35 hours
14) April 2013 10.55 hours
15) May 2013 03.30 hours
16) June 2013 16.35 hours
17) July 2013 06.15 hour
TOTAL 170.05 hours
Total loss of water: 1700 ML
Equal to full 7 days of 24 hours.
The figures are eloquent to suggest the gravity of acute water supply to the areas in North, East, and Central Nagpur.
