Mumbai: Municipal Corporation provides various civic services and amenities to the residents of Mumbai. It provides clean drinking water to the citizens every day. In this regard, Mumbai Municipal Corporation has also been praised from time to time at various levels. However, currently, complaints related to water supply are coming from some places. The concerned authorities should immediately resolve these complaints and take all water-related complaints seriously and resolve them in a timely manner. Along with this, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Project) Abhijeet Bangar has given clear instructions that complaints of contaminated water supply should be resolved immediately and on top priority. Besides, leakages in water channels should be immediately detected and teams should be deployed at the required places to detect leaks, Bangar also instructed during a special review meeting of the Water Engineering Department held on Thursday evening. Additional Municipal Commissioner (Project) Abhijeet Bangar, while guiding the attendees during the meeting, said that complaints of inadequate water supply and low pressure water supply have been received from some places in the last few days. Therefore, the officials should inspect the place without delay. If the complaint received during this inspection is found to be valid, appropriate steps should be taken immediately without delay. In the existing water supply distribution system, where necessary, some changes in these measures can be found to find a way out. For example, appropriate improvement in the ‘zoning’ system of water supply, if there is leakage in the water pipe, it should be fixed without delay, while in some places, structural changes in the system; Additional ‘boosting’ measures may be included in the measures as required without any delay. As per the above, local public representatives should be informed about the steps being taken regarding inadequate water supply. If possible, inspection visits should be conducted with public representatives, so that the information expected to be obtained from them can be directly obtained, Bangar also suggested during the review meeting. A detailed discussion was also held regarding the complaints of polluted water during the meeting. In this regard, Bangar ordered that complaints related to polluted water should be taken very seriously. Extreme urgency should be shown while processing these complaints. If action is not taken regarding the complaints of polluted water without delay, it can have serious consequences, it is necessary for the concerned authorities to take notice of these matters. Senior officers were also directed that all the institutions should be highly sensitive in this regard. During the same meeting, senior officers were ordered to take action in a ‘24×7’ manner without delay and without any hindrance to trace the source of polluted water. While taking this action, it is also necessary to have the necessary manpower available. Special teams should be formed to resolve the complaints of polluted water in a timely manner. These teams should be made available zone-wise. So that action can be taken without delay after receiving the complaints. If additional manpower is required for this, the department should request it. Accordingly, the manpower will be made available on priority basis. It is necessary to maintain regular contact with each other for the major sub-departments of the Water Engineering Department of Mumbai Municipal Corporation, namely, water supply, construction, planning and maintenance. Also, in this regard, the sub-departments of the Water Engineering Department should maintain regular contact with each other. The Water Engineer should ensure this and take necessary precautions in this regard. If there are difficulties in completing the water supply projects within the stipulated time, the engineers should be provided with cooperation and assistance from senior officers as required. Apart from this, if anyone is doing deliberate negligence, then everyone should take notice that action will be taken against the concerned along with determining the responsibility in this regard. Bangar also mentioned this during today’s meeting. While instructing the senior officers present during this meeting of the Water Engineering Department, Mr. Bangar said that soon a ward-level review of water supply planning will be conducted. In this context, the Assistant Engineers (Water Works) of each department should review the work done in their respective work areas and their work areas and give a presentation about it during the review meeting. Road development and other works are being carried out on a large scale by the Municipal Corporation and other authorities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Due to these works, water supply channels have had to be shifted to other places in some places, while in some places the water channels may be damaged. This may cause temporary disruption in the water supply of the concerned area. If such a situation arises, the water channels in the area should be repaired immediately or new water channels should be laid as per the requirement. While carrying out all these tasks, the various sub-divisions of the Water Engineering Department as well as the Municipal Corporation and various departments of the Municipal Corporation should be closely coordinated.