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welfare : In Dombivli, the case of water theft by tampering with the valve of MIDC’s water pipeline is increasing. As soon as the video of water leaking from the pipeline in front of Sagar Hotel Venkatesh Petrol Pump on Kalyan Sheel Road was circulated on social media and to MIDC officials, MIDC staff came and wrapped cloth on the valve of the pipeline to temporarily stop the leak Done, but the leakage has started again and it is clearly visible that it will increase further.
On the Katai-Badlapur pipeline MIDC, such valves are located at several places in the Dombivli area. Some social anti-social elements are tampering with the pipeline there. Due to which lakhs of liters of water is leaking since last few years. Information has been received through RTI that about 16 percent water is being wasted. The MIDC administration does not seem to be making any effort to stop the leakage and theft of water. Still the administration has not been able to solve the problems of water scarcity and low pressure water supply in Dombivli-Kalyan rural areas. Theft of water on Kalyan Sheel and Katai Badlapur roads. Security guards were to be appointed by the MIDC a few years ago to prevent leakage, but the appointment is yet to take place.
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MIDC will get its benefit
Now MIDC should at least install CC cameras on these big pipelines so that theft can be prevented or pipeline bursts, leaks can be reported immediately. MIDC Corporation is a profitable, prosperous and financially sound corporation in Maharashtra. If this measure reduces water leakage and theft. So MIDC will get its benefit. But social activist Raju Nalwade reacted saying that it is suspected that the MIDC is not taking deliberate measures to stop the leakage of water in the pipeline for the last few years.
