A meeting between PHED minister Kiran Maheshwari and 55 corporators of Udaipur, along with the officials of various departments was held on 4^th Feb at District Administration Auditorium to discuss about the availability of clean, drinking water in the city.

The 55 ward corporators were invited with the main motive to provide safe, clean drinking water to the city public and cause no problem in the upcoming summers.

The one-on-one session held between the officials stated the ground reality of the availability of drinking water. The wardens projected the problems and officials gave statements in retrospect of the raised issues. According to Maheshwari, the problems will be solved on city level, area wise. The review meeting will be held in near future by the Mayor to ascertain the development. If the problems are yet not solved, then the concerned issues will be considered at the department level.

Kiran Maheshwari informed that there are a number of reservoirs in and around Udaipur by which the availability of water can be sufficed. The city, however needs more water tanks, filter plants, pump houses which need to be developed for 24 hour water availability.

The project of Rs. 3.5 Cr is under progress; after proper funding, the project will soon commence. For this, Kiran said that the upcoming budget may consider issuing the project.

Turning to the other side, Kiran pleaded the people using booster to stop its usage as it causes air pressure and mismanaged water availability. She instructed the officials to take a month time to establish boosters and stop their usage, post which strict actions will be taken.

Condemning the recent upsurge in the Kachi Basti area regarding electricity, she said that the slums, identified by Nagar Nigam can regularize the water availability through legal process and for that a month time is given.

The last point she discussed was the mixing of the drinking water pipeline with sewerage line in certain areas that is an appalling situation. For this, she has suggested to lay pipe lines away from the sewerage pipe and make efforts to bring distance between the already constructed sewage lines from water pipe lines.