Control rooms and helpline centres opened in Yadgir to attend to drinking water crisis in the district
The Hindu
As the mercury is going up day by day, rural areas in the district may face drinking water problems in the next three months.
Control rooms and helpline centres were opened in Yadgir on March 16 to attend to complaints regarding the drinking water crises in the district in north Karnataka. Nodal officers were appointed.
As the mercury is going up day by day, rural areas in the district may face drinking water problems in the next three months.
“The Zilla Panchayat has taken steps to attend to complaints in the problematic villages and is prepared to supply water through tankers and also from rented borewells. Further, a control room has been opened to receive calls, and nodal officers have been deployed to monitor the situation,” said Lavish Ordia, Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat.
Mr. Ordia has directed the officers who have been deployed as nodal officers and also at helpline centres not to avoid a single call on water crises.
He directed the nodal officers and officers posted in helpline centres to attend all calls and inform the officers concerned to solve the drinking water crises. The officers were told to submit a report to the zilla Panchayat on the action taken after receipt of each complaint.
Zaheera Ul Hasan Samdani, Assistant Secretary of ZP, has been appointed as district-level nodal officer and the officer’s contact number is 9916564444.
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