Cidco N-7 residents protest outside water supply office

Aurangabad | Wednesday | 13th March, 2019

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Aurangabad: Upset with the poor quality of water being supplied to them, residents of Cidco N-7 ward, led by local corporators, stormed the N-7 water supply office on Tuesday.The residents had filled contaminated water in bottles and staged a demonstration outside the N-7 elevated storage reservoir. When we call the officials concerned during water supply timings, they never answer the calls,” Kashinathrao Kokate, one of the residents, said.Municipal commissioner Nipun Vinayak is on a 10-day leave and additional commissioner was also not available. If the matter is not resolved in the given time, we will resort to a sit-in agitation in front of the municipal corporation office,” Patil said.Parijat Nagar in Cidco N-4 received contaminated water again on Tuesday. According to the protesters, houses from F 60/7 to 60/10 (Ram Mandir Chowk) and F1 to F20 in N-7 are not getting water through tap.Meanwhile, houses in F7 and F9 of the same area are receiving contaminated water for the last two months. “Our repeated representations to the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) officials have fallen on deaf ears..