4 tap water samples from near Ludhiana's Buddha Nullah fail test

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 3

Four MC tap water samples collected from Chandar Nagar and New Chandar Nagar located near the highly polluted Buddha Nullah have failed the laboratory test.

These samples were collected by the Health Department on a complaint by AAP leader Keemti Rawal.

Out of the four samples, two samples were collected from houses of New Chandar Nagar, one from the Government Primary School of Chandar Nagar and one from Bhola Handloom Store in New Chandar Nagar.

As per the report prepared by the Department of Microbiology, PAU, Ludhiana, the water samples were found “bacteriologically not safe”. The coliform organisms were present in all four samples. Faecal coliform/E. coli were detected in the failed water samples.

Rawal, who is a resident of New Chandar Nagar and runs the Mahatar Sathi Jagriti Manch (NGO) said, “The Ludhiana MC is supplying water in the areas where the water samples failed the test. Even the sample collected from my house has failed the test.”

Meanwhile, Rawal has made a written complaint to the Punjab State Human Rights commission regarding the failed water samples. He demanded from the commission to take the required steps in this regard.

Rawal said the people can suffer from diseases as water being supplied by the civic body has failed the test. “The people spend a huge amount of their earnings for the treatment of diseases. I demand action should be initiated against the civic body for supplying unsafe water to people,” he said.