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| PHE Strike: Helpless residents struggling to a single drop of drinking water | | Bureaucrats, politicians sleeping as water crisis deepen Jammu city | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 9: While Jammu city is facing unprecedented scarcity of drinking water due to on-going strike of the PHE employees, bureaucrats and politicians are in a deep slumber.
During the last 12 days PHE employees are on the tool down strike in support of their long pending demands but those at the helm of the affairs are not ready to solve the issue.
Bureaucrats and politicians are getting supply of water through water tankers of the PHE department and rich people are purchasing water through private tankers but commoners are wearing maximum brunt of the on-going strike of the PHE employees.
Acute scarcity of water has exposed tall claims of authorities to take serious steps to solve day today problems of the residents.
Although the entire Jammu province is confronting the problem of non-availability of potable water, residents of Jammu city are facing most.
While Jammu city is already facing a drinking water deficit, on-going strike of the PHE employees has further compounded woes of the common people.
They have been demanding pending wages and changes in the departmental promotion committee (DPC) process. They are also demanding regularization of daily wagers.
“We took the strike decision as the administration has failed to release the pending wages of daily earners for the last five years. Even the DPC of the regular employees is not carried out on time due to which there is resentment among them. Even the regular employees have extended their support to the daily earners,” said an agitating employee.
The unions have also warned to intensify their agitation in the coming weeks if the PHE department and the UT administration continues its apathetic attitude towards the workers who had been denied regular wages and regularisation despite the announcements made by the previous governments, from time to time.
Meanwhile a senior official of the PHE department said failure to plug leaks in the distribution network, installation of flow meters and pressure gauge gadgets, supervisory control and replacement of old pipes and installation of meters were the main factors for the huge loss of water during distribution.
Moreover, the increase in population of Jammu city has led to unplanned development with the demand for water increasing.
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