Digging disrupts phone,net services

Residents of Phase XI,Mohali are facing a harrowing time as telephone and internet services of BSNL and Airtel are reportedly lying suspended for the past fortnight...

Residents of Phase XI,Mohali are facing a harrowing time as telephone and internet services of BSNL and Airtel are reportedly lying suspended for the past fortnight while footpaths and other public property has been left badly damaged due to digging work by a private telephone and internet service provider in the area.

Area councillor Amrik Singh urged Municipal Council authorities to take immediate note of the widespread destruction caused by the private company,which he said was permitted by the civic body to lay its underground lines.

The deep and wide digging has left heaps of soil in front of houses and has blocked the drainage system,leading to waterlogging even after a short spell of rain, said the councillor,while ruing that repeated complaints to the MC and other authorities concerned have so far fallen on deaf ears.

Singh added that BSNL and Airtel have expressed their helplessness in restoring the services till the ongoing digging work gets completed.

DC takes note of water scarcity

Deputy Commissioner Prabhjot Singh Mand has taken serious took note of media reports highlighting acute shortage of drinking water in Mohali.

At a special meeting chaired on Thursday evening,Mand directed the Public Health and Sanitation

department and Municipal Council authorities to take steps to ensure regular supply of drinking water to residents.

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Public Health and Sanitation department Executive Engineer,Inderjeet Singh Kang,underlined the need to lay the fifth and sixth line of the

Kajauli waterworks,which was not possible over the next 5 years,till when 39 new tubewells were

required to cover the increasing gap between the demand and supply of water.

The DC asked the departments concerned to submit detailed plans to tackle the water problem,which he said he would take up with the state government.

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