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New Delhi
By Our Staff Reporter
But for the local residents, the situation is "far from normal'' this summer, and they allege that the conditions have been deteriorating with each passing day. However, they do not seem to have any explanation to the strong protest lodged by the Delhi Assembly Speaker, Prem Singh, to the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, over the water shortages and hours of power cuts in large parts of the city and the Madangir area of South Delhi in particular. The Speaker said that BSES officials were not supplying power to DJB tubewells as a result of which water could not be supplied to residents. ``There was no power in my house from 10-30 a. m. to 7 p. m. There was no intimation by BSES. First they told us there was a shutdown due to maintenance work and later we were told that some thing had burnt down,'' alleged Saroj Oberoi, a senior citizen in C-Block Defence Colony. Fearing the situation would continue to be equally bad tomorrow, she said: "It has been causing a lot of inconvenience. As a result there has been no water supply,'' she complained. A BSES spokesman said residents were given prior information about disruption in power supply due to change of some panel. ``There was no electricity in our area from 12 midnight to 10 in the morning today. In the meantime, there was no response from the BSES officials and the complaint center. Power again went off at 7 in the evening. We have no idea know when it would be restored,'' said D. L. Gupta, a resident of Uttam Nagar in West Delhi. ``Not a drop of water has trickled down the taps in our area, making life hell for us. We get scared when we visualise what the situation would be during peak summer days,'' said Kavita Mohan, a resident of neighbouring Sanjay Enclave. Given the resentment prevailing among the residents of the area, the resident welfare associations have decided to convene an emergency meeting to chalk out their future course of action. "We are now left with no other option but to come out and protest on the roads,'' said B. K. Keshav, general secretary of the Vikas Vihar RWA. While complaints of power cuts were reported from Malviya Nagar, Madangir, Kalkaji, Govindpuri, Laxmi Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Model Town and Naraina, water shortages were reported from Okhla, Vasant Kunj, Mehrauli, R. K. Puram, Mahipalpur, Devli Village, Saket, Laxmi Nagar and Patparganj. For their part, senior DJB officials claimed that there was no shortage on the water front. If there is any, it might be due to local problems and illegal tapping of water mains. A senior DJB official today claimed to have treated 668.4 MGD of water as against the average of 653 MGD. "The Bhagirati plant which we fear would be hit due to the repair of Upper Ganga Canal today treated 118-120 MGD as against 100 MGD. This is because we have made alternative arrangements for water. There is no dearth of raw water in the Capital today,'' the official said. Meanwhile, a Delhi Transco spokeswoman said the peak demand met today was 2,693 MW at 3-30 p.m. when loadshedding was just 43 MW. "For most part of the day, loadshedding was less than 50 MW and the peak demand of 65 MW was registered at 1-30 p.m.,'' she said.
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