JAIPUR: While reviewing the water supply condition of Pink City on Wednesday, Sandeep Verma, principal secretary of public health and engineering department (PHED), gave sanctions for the digging of 272 tube wells in the city.It will cost around Rs 39.93 crore which will supply 43 MLD of water in the city. Tube wells are being digging as there is a shortage of water in Bisalpur dam due to scarce rainfall in 2018. “Tenders were already issued, we were just waiting for the financial sanction from the government. Now, as the sanction is received, the work will start very soon. Within a span of four months, we are expecting that the work will be completed and the water shortage problem in the city will be solved,” said Dinesh Saini, chief engineer of PHED, Jaipur. Recently, government also issued work orders for the construction of pipelines in the Kho Nagoriyan, Jamdoli and Amber regions which are facing an acute water crisis. The entire project will cost more than Rs 100 crore and thousands of people will be benefited by it. Residents of Kho Nagoriyan have participated in mass protests and have taken to street many times against the water shortage. The area is already in the dark zone (where water levels have gone very low) and water tanker is being supplied which the residents claim is not enough as per the demands.At present, PHED has cut 20% of water supply from Bisalpur dam. The dam contains 385.48ml of water at present which will be enough up till August 2019. Bisalpur dam water is supplied to Ajmer and Jaipur district and is also considered to be the lifeline of the two cities. Verma gave another sanction of releasing the payment of tankers that are being used to supply water in the city which is around Rs 4.60 crore.

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