Hazaribag officials rapped for Navaratra water crisis

HAZRIBAG: Deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan has issued show-cause notices to the executive engineer, assistant engineer and five other officials of the PHED Hazaribag division for their failure to ensure supply of drinking water to people of Hazribag town from October 16 to October 18.
He also ordered suspension of the salaries of all the PHED officials for their failure to repair the damaged pumps of the Charowa Dam pumping station from where the water is supplied to Hazaribag town and its surrounding areas covering a population of nearly three lakh people.
Ranjan said, "Non-supply of drinking water to so many people at the time of Navaratra celebrations was a serious lapse on the part of the senior officials of the PHED department as they did not undertake the repair work seriously."
The DC issued directives to PHED authorities that no official will be granted any leave during Durga Puja and Bakrid. He also ordered the engineer to keep sufficient spare parts in it stock so that pumps can be repaired quickly.