NEW DELHI, May 17: Former Union minister Jagdish Tytler has refuted the claims of Delhi Mayor Yog Dhyan Ahuja that the city has ample safe drinking water.Taking credit for jolting the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) out of its slumber, Tytler stated in a statement that the Mayor was not sure of what he was saying. ``On the one hand, he (Mayor Ahuja) admits that there is shortage of water, and on the other, he says that 11 MGD excess water was being supplied.''
He even pooh-poohed the Delhi Government claims of safe drinking water being available to the people in the city. ``If that is the case then how come people are up in arms demanding potable water. And why are water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid etc. on the rise,'' he asked.
He alleged that the BJP Government in the city was ignoring the 3,000 complaints it had received about the water situation this year. Tytler demanded a six-line phone and a fax be installed by the government so that people all over the Capital could make complaints of the water quality.
He further said a filtering and pumping station installed at the cost of over Rs 60 crore was lying idle because of lack of water supply from neighbouring Haryana.
