MALDA, Jan. 22: The sabhadhipati of Malda zilla parishad (MZP), Mrs Sabina Yeasmin, has asked the public health engineering (PHE) department to set up "community tank" for supplying arsenic free drinking water throughout the day. The idea was conceived in the last PHE sthayee samiti (permanent committee) meeting held recently on the issue of drinking water supply to Sadullapur, a place of crematorium for Hindus, on bank of Bhagirathi in English Bazaar.
The PHE officials have been asked to provide safe drinking water at Sadullapur and it has been finalised that a "community tank" would be set up there connecting pipeline waters supplied by the PHE.
Following this discussion, the sthayee samiti members have also decided to set up such "community tank" in other blocks where many villages have been left out of the areas of arsenic free drinking water supply network in Kaliachak I, II and III and on the other hand in Manikchak, English Bazaar and other blocks. Some members of the Sthayee Samiti also pointed out problem of unequal distribution of arsenic free drinking water in rural belts. “In many areas, wastage of costly produced arsenic free drinking water is a common picture. Water supply continues more than the requirement of local people. But there are many villages where there is no pipe line for supplying such water.” The executive engineer PHE (arsenic division), Mr Swapan Maitra, said that due to technical problem they can not check wastage of costly drinking water. “First time we have to check wastage of drinking water supplied through pipe line and 'street taps'. We will have to discover new method to check wastage of drinking water through street taps and to store the waters in the community tanks from where people will be able to collect drinking waters through out the according to their requirement,” said Mr Maitra. n SNS
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