Acute Water Crisis, Unkept Promises Forces Bengaluru Man Set Up Camp Outside Municipality Office
Srinivas M adopted this way after official apathy and water shortage in his locality left no other way except for staging protest. A video shot by Srinivas of him outside the BBMP office was tweeted by Whitefield Rising a citizens&rsquo activist group in Bengaluru.
The acute water crisis in his locality had forced a Bengaluru man to sleep outside the office of Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in RH Halli. Srinivas M adopted this way after official apathy and water shortage in his locality left no other way except for staging protest.
"There are 60 houses on this road. I have been requesting for a water connection for the last ten months, but they kept saying it will happen in a day or two," Srinivas said.
"After a point, things went wrong at home too since nothing was being done about it. I had no other choice. I decided to sleep here until the issue is resolved," he added, according to a News18 report.
Srinivas told that he returned home on Monday after he was assured by the officials that issues of water in localities. Srinivas has spent Rs 1000 per month in buying water from private tanks.
The water in the Bengaluru city comes under the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewage Board (BWSSB) and the recent addition of 110 villages to supply water to by BBMP resulted to shortage of water.
@BBMPCOMM - this is a sorry state of affairs.
¡ª Whitefield Rising (@WFRising) June 12, 2019
Location: BBMP office in RG Halli.
Video shared with permission. pic.twitter.com/By70kB9Bpm
"It is not true that we have not acted on the request. The pipe was jammed which blocked the water supply to his house. We acted immediately after we were informed about it," said an official on condition of anonymity.
Srinivas later said that as promised officials visited her locality on Tuesday and Wednesday and are doing what is required.
Srinivas shot a video of him outside the BBMP office which was later tweeted by a Bengaluru citizen activist group-Whitefield Rising. A video shot by Srinivas of him outside the BBMP office was tweeted by Whitefield Rising, a citizens¡¯ activist group in Bengaluru.
