HSR residents protest today; BWSSB promises water every four days!

Despite repeated reminders and warnings, the BWSSB did not follow the schedule it had put out recently. The result was that several residents of HSR Layout protested today at the BWSSB office on 24th Main in Sector 2. They were answering to the protest call given by the Federation of HSR Layout Residents Welfare Association.

Shouting slogans of ‘Beke Beku, Neeru Beku’ (We want water), the residents registered their protest even while meeting the engineers in charge of this sub division. The BWSSB officials said that they cannot help the situation until June 2019 as there is a water shortage due to the summer season. However, they promised to provide water supply every alternate day after that. But the residents are not sure about that as the officials only said that they would look into providing water every alternate day from June onwards.

When the residents demanded that the BWSSB immediately resolve the issue of letting water arbitrarily and not following the schedule set by the BWSSB itself, the officials promised that they will let water every four days in April (it’s every five days right now).

All the sector-wise resident welfare associations were present at the protest and we could see about 150 members who had assembled to register their protest at the BWSSB office.

“Our demand was for every alternate day, but the BWSSB officials said that they will release water every four days in April, and every three days in May for now. In June-July, they said they will try to provide water every alternate day, but they were not categorical about it,” said HE Chandrashekar, secretary, Federation of HSR Layout Residents Welfare Association.

Watch this video of the protest against the BWSSB that happened today.