Continuing his attack on 'privatisation' of water supply in Delhi,
Justice (retired) Rajinder Sachar has questioned the role of Delhi Jal
Board (DJB) in such policy decisions.
He has also alleged that private companies were being given undue
benefit in the name of 24x7 water supply programmes under public private participation (PPP) model.
A patron of water privatisation and commercialisation resistance
committee, Justice Sachar had first written to Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit in November, raising pertinent issues vis-à-vis privatisation
attempts by the DJB. However, instead of Dikshit, he received a reply
from Jal board's CEO Debashree Mukherjee. "Bureaucrats are not in the
position to respond to constitutional and policy matters raised by me in
the earlier letter," Sachar has pointed out to Dikshit in another
letter sent this week.
The DJB had in 2012 launched three pilot programmes for 24x7 water
supply under the PPP model to improve the water distribution system in
Malviya Nagar, Nangloi, Vasant Vihar and Mehrauli.
Sachar has pointed out that the DJB has referred to reduction of the
non-revenue water (NRW) but the contract agreement signed by the Nangloi
project shows that the private operator will not be required to reduce
NRW for the first four years.
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