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Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU June 15: Public Health and Sanitation (PHS) committee of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) is all set to take strict action against those people who are using illegal ways to draw groundwater and private operators indulging in septic tank cleaning business without proper permission. He said that JMC will not tolerate this menace and a strict action will be taken against such persons to stop the depletion of ground water in the city. He said that doing this business illegally these operators are also incurring revenue loss to the government as they doing it without paying the requisite fee to the JMC. He claimed that Jammu City has been segregated into 5 zones comprising 15 wards each with exclusive PHS Committees unlike earlier when there were only three zones. He said that JMC has also raised the number of CTOs to two from the existing single officer to facilitate its working across the city comprising 75 wards..