Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Annisul Huq asked officials of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority to solve ongoing water crisis of West Nakhalpara in the capital within next 10 days.
The mayor gave the order to concerned officials while visiting the area with Wasa officials and ward councillors.
During the visit the mayor also talked with local people over the problems.
Local people told the mayor that they had been facing water crisis everyday as Wasa was repairing water supply pipelines in the area for last one and half month.
Addressing Wasa officials Annisul said: “I hope the problem would be solved before the upcomimg Eid-ul-Fitr.”
The newly elected mayor Annisul Huq has visited the area several times and assured locals that their problems would be solved within a few days, but people are still suffering from scarcity of water.
Responding to a journalists’ question, Annisul said to overcome the city dwellers harassment, all digging for utilities developments would be finished by February from the next year.
Rahamat Ullah, a resident of the area, said: “Wasa has started renovation of water pipelines over a month ago as water was stinky in the area, but their renovation is yet to be finished.”
Rita Parvin said they had to buy water for household chores every day as they were not getting water properly.
Md Abdur Rahman is considering to set up deep well as many of his tenants were saying that they would leave his house, if the water crisis was not eased within a few days.
Aeysha Akter said she had been buying water of Tk500 every day since the beginning of Ramadan. She said: “I may shift from the place to another area of the city as the problem is not reducing.”
