90 pc of drinking water contaminated

According to official sources, samples were also collected from boosting stations and pumps being maintained by state departments and agencies, including HUDA. Of the 33 samples, 22 were taken from Hisar and the rest were collected from Hansi.

A senior doctor at the Civil Hospital, on condition of anonymity, holds the district health authorities solely responsible for this serious lapse.

“It’s like playing with the lives of people,” he said. “At least 116 water samples were found to contain one or the other kind of bacteria out of a total 133 collected during the last eight months.”

“This is the state of affairs despite the fact that the Health Minister of the state represents Hisar assembly constituency,” another doctor said.

Civil Surgeon S. K. Dogra, confirmed bacterial contamination in drinking water supply but said there was no need to panic because the department has already taken adequate steps to super-chlorify water tanks and tubewells in both sub-divisions.

He said health workers have fanned out in the entire district to tell the residents to mix bleaching powder or halogen tablets in water before drinking it.

He said that except for sporadic cases of water-borne diseases, the situation was well under control.

Areas where the drinking water was found polluted in Hisar include the posh locality of Sector 15, besides Model Town, Bus Stand and Jawahar Nagar. In Hansi, the grain market, Gandhi Nagar, Delhi Gate and Multan Nagar had contaminated water.

Sonepat: District police today claimed to have crushed nine inter-state gangs of criminals operating in Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan for the last few months.

Superintendent of Police K. Selvraj told media persons that one of the busted gangs belonged to the Bawaria community and its six members have been arrested.

The ring-leader of this gang is Pappoo alias Satbir from Tohana. The gang were involved in 75 cases in these states, he said.

He said that the gangsters had committed crimes like loot robbery, dacoity murder and rape in the districts of Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal, Bahadurgarh and Gurgaon in Haryana and Delhi. The police has recovered stolen property worth Rs 59,100 from the gangsters.