Dhanbad: Water- water everywhere not a drop to drink. The age old adage seems to be true for more than five lakh residents of Jharia who face water crisis during every monsoon season due to rise in water level of river Damodar.
Weeds being carried along with the strong water current during monsoon block the inlet pipeline of the intake well of Jamadoba based water treatment plant of civic body Jharkhand Mineral Area Development Authority affecting the water treatment work and resultant supply of treated water.
The latest water crisis which arose six days ago however is coupled with a leakage problem in the main water supply pipeline around 200 meters away from the treatment plant further delaying the resumption of water supply.
Dhanbad traders to protest civic body taxes Corporation backtracking on promise of trade license for three months during lockdown
Coal town traders are planning a phase wise protest against the multitude of taxes levied by Dhanbad Municipal Corporation at a time of economic distress due to lack of any business activities during the state-wide partial lockdown.
The traders are against the prerequisite of having a holding tax receipt for issuance of a trade licence fee by the DMC. They claimed that the civic body was going back on its promise of issuing trade licenses for three months to all applicants irrespective of a holding tax submission receipt.
The rapid increase in Covid cases and statewide lockdown has impacted the ongoing development projects of Dhanbad as migrant labourers engaged in them have returned to their native places at Bokaro, Ranchi and Bihar.
An eight lane road widening project worth Rs 411 crore and construction work of a park at Liloristhan in Katras have been impacted with lack of skilled labourers.
The highway project, a brain child of former mayor Dhanbad Chandrashekhar Agarwal, is aimed at diverting the traffic on the By pass road and thereby decreasing the load on existing internal roads of Dhanbad.
M.K. Verma, project in charge of the eight lane project being executed with the help of the State Highway Authority of Jharkhand, said,“Though around 23% of the project has already been completed but the work has been affected in one half of project from Kako Math to Binod Bihari Mahto Chowk since about a week as some skilled labourers working on the project have left to their places since the imposi
Power cuts disrupt water supply to over 5 lakh coal town residents DVC engineer claims no solution to problem in Dhanbad and neighbourhood in near future
Irregular power supply has affected the water supply from the Jamadoba based plant of Jharkhand Mineral Area Development Authority and Bhelatand based water treatment plant of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation.
Water supply remained suspended for three days in different localities of Jharia including Sabzi Mandi, Hetli Bandh, Poddar Para, Koiri Bandh, Fatehpur lane, Jharia Main road, Ghanudih, affecting more than five lakh residents.
In Dhanbad’s Putki area, water supply from the treatment plant of JMADA at Jamadoba was affected in the first week of April.
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