Concerned over complaints of intermittent water supply and sudden spike in bills, the Petition Committee of Delhi Assembly today summoned DJB CEO, two other senior officers and directed them to investigate the matter.
The summoning of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) CEO comes at a time when there are just a few days left for the upcoming MCD elections to be held on April 23.
In the meeting, members of the Petition Committee comprising all AAP MLAs raised their concern of "political sabotage" by vested interests.
The nine-member committee, headed by Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla, directed DJB CEO Keshav Chandra to issue a show cause notice to a private agency which has been tasked with preparing consumers' water bills.
"The committee today summoned DJB CEO, Member Revenue and Member Water over complaints of intermittent water supply across Delhi in last few days.
"The CEO told the committee about the reason of electrical jerks causing the crisis. We have directed him to have a meeting with Transco and BSES CEOs to get the matter sorted out soon," AAP MLA Sourabh Bhardwaj, who is also member of the Petition Committee, said.
Also, taking cognisance of complaints of sudden spike in water bills, the committee has also directed Delhi Jal Board CEO to issue show cause notice to the concerned agency seeking its explanation about the issue.
"The Petition Committee has directed the CEO to probe the matter and file the report within seven to ten days," Bhardwaj also said.
In the run up to MCD elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is hard-selling the 2015 Assembly pre-poll promises of providing free water upto 20,000 litres per month besides halving power bills of Delhiites.
At his first public meeting in North Delhi's Burari on March 31, Kejriwal had cautioned the people that power and water tariff would increase if either the BJP or the Congress came to power in civic bodies.
He had also claimed that both the parties have "hatched a conspiracy" to snatch these departments from the AAP government.
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