Uddhav Thackeray launches ‘water for all’ policy in Mumbai, illegal slums to benefit
India Today
With CM Uddhav Thackeray launching the ‘water for all’ policy, the BMC will be able to provide water to illegal slums and buildings that don’t have occupation certificates.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday launched the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ‘water for all’ policy in Goregaon. With this, the BMC will be able to provide water to illegal slums and buildings that don’t have occupation certificates.
The civic body provides 385 crore litres of water to the city through 4.6 lakh connections. However, it was unable to provide water to illegal slums and buildings that didn’t have occupation certificates. Owing to stringent regulations, lakhs of citizens were deprived of legal connections.
Such tenements used to buy water at higher rates from private tankers or steal water from BMC pipelines. Considering this, the BMC decided to provide water to all, with the policy kicking off on Saturday in Mumbai.
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Moreover, a provision of Rs 200 crore has been made for a desalination project to produce fresh water from salt water in Mumbai.
