SHILLONG, MAR 9: Meghalaya Assembly speaker Abu Taher Mondal on Wednesday asked the urban affairs minister Ampareen Lyngdoh to look into the issue related to the alleged supplying of ‘untreated water’ to the residents of Tura.
“I urged the minister to take care of the situation and immediately asked the officials to check whether water is treated or not because this concerns human health,” Mondal said.
The Speaker’s intervention came after Independent South Tura Legislator John Leslee Sangma said he was not satisfaction to the reply made by the Urban Affairs Minister during the question hour in the assembly on Wednesday.
Lyngdoh in the course of her replied had claimed that the water supplied to the residents of Tura, West Garo Hills District is portable and safe.
“The water collected and supplied to residents of Tura is taken from the PHE intake point at Edenbari, which is an open source. The source is maintained by the PHE and the municipal board takes it water from the source,” she said.
Earlier, Sangma had alleged that the PHE department as well as the Tura Municipal Board is supplying untreated water to the people of Tura for past 3 years.
Referring to a government document, Sangma said, “Edenbari is just a storage place where water is not treated. It is pump to 6.5 km to the Tura Water Treatment Plant but TMB and PHE department is collecting water from the source which is untreated water and has been supplying to the people of Tura all this years.”
He also said that minister was just presuming by replying that the water being supplied is portable and safe.-By Our Reporter
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