After this newspaper highlighted how the area between the Shefali bus stop and Vale in Gorai hadn’t been supplied water for the past 12 years, residents claim that the area MLA, Sanjay Upadhyay, took up the work and recently sent workers to the area to check water pipelines for blockages.

Blockages were eventually found — as locals suspected — and removed on Friday, but all hopes were dashed, as the problem persisted, indicating that the water supply issue requires much deeper attention from the civic body. mid-day contacted the R Central ward officer to get to the bottom of the issue, but received no reply by press time.