Nearly 50,000 households in the Adityapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) are awaiting regular access to drinking water from their taps. Despite the foundation stone being laid for the Rs 395 crore drinking water project in February 2019, it is yet to become operational.
Jamshedpur: Seraikela-Kharsawan SP Bimal Kumar on Saturday led a motorcycle rally from the police headquarters in Seraikela to the Kandra toll bridge .
Adityapur faces drinking water scarcity much before summer hits NGO demands five water-tankers from JIADA to tide over the crisis
Even though summer is about three months away, the underground water table has considerably depleted at Adityapur township in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district, causing a majority of the bore-wells in the area to get defunct.
As a result of the bore-wells turning useless due to the exhaustion of the underground water, a serious drinking water crisis has emerged in the tiny township which has a population of over three lakhs.
Concerned with the untimely drinking water crisis in Adityapur, a local NGO, Jan Kalyan Morcha (JKM) has urged the regional office, Jharkhand Industrial Area Development Authority (JIADA) Adityapur to provide a minimum of five water tankers under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme in the residential areas of