NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which stormed into Delhi politics on the plank of providing piped water to all, has not and may not be able to provide piped water connection to over 650 JJ clusters and 100 unauthorised colonies in the city anytime soon, as the tenure of the Arvind Kejriwal government will end in February 2020.
According to government data, of the total 675 JJ (jhuggi jhopri) clusters in the city, the technical feasibility exists for only 364 and the government has been able to provide water to only seven of these clusters.
"Till March 2019, seven JJ clusters have been provided water pipeline and the work is underway in few others," according to the a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) data.
Similarly, there are 1,725 unauthorised colonies in Delhi out of which 1,594 are eligible for water connections. While the no-objection certificates (NOCs) are not available for 95 unauthorised colonies, work is not feasible in 36 others.
"A total of 1,374 unauthorised colonies got water pipeline till 2018-19," according to the official data, while till 2013, only 791 unauthorised colonies had piped water.
In its 2015 Assembly poll manifesto, the AAP had promised that it will make clean drinking water a right of the people and will provide universal access to clean drinking water to all citizens of Delhi at an affordable price.
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