Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Feb 2: The city corporation has before it the ambitious plan of ensuring uninterrupted water supply throughout to the citizens of the city through its 'Jalasiri' scheme. At the same time, it is ignoring several spots from where water is flowing out continuously due to ruptured pipes. One such example is visible at the main road at Karangalpady.
Water is draining away in front of the gate of St Aloysius higher primary school on Kudmul Ranga Rao Road since the last some months. But for some strange reason, the corporator of the area and the water supply officials of the city corporation seem to have failed to notice this. Even though the stream is thin, the water that has gone waste since the last two months accounts for thousands of litres. Locals and pedestrians too are upset that the leakage is not repaired.
Pipe has ruptured under the concrete road and water is oozing out from the bottom of an electric pole standing there. As there is no drain for the water to flow, it has stagnated by the roadside. As it is a concreted road, the water is not absorbed. Because of the presence of trees and shadow, the water is not getting evaporated either. As foliage and mud along with the water have decomposed, black colour water has accumulated there. It has also turned into a mosquito breeding spot.
Although footpath work has been undertaken from the direction of PVS circle on Kudmul Ranga Rao Road, from the court road, only a small amount of work has been conducted. The steel rods used for concrete works are rusting by the roadside. The roadsides were concreted recently without taking care of the water pipe. Now the concrete road will have to be dug. This road had earlier been dug many time for underground drainage, water pipeline and other purposes.
The spot where the water has got accumulated can become an accident zone. As water has got stranded by the edge of the concrete road, pedestrians have to walk along with vehicles on the road. Vehicular traffic is dense here and a little careless can give rise to catastrophe.
City mayor Diwakar Pandeshwar said that the engineers of the water supply department have been asked to take steps to address the problem.