Four months on, citizens’ bid to get water connection under BMC’s Water For All policy is yet to speed up. Reason: monsoon season. Civic officials said they cannot give permission for trenching to lay the pipelines during the rainy season, which has stopped the pace of the work. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation launched the policy, which was pending for years even after the Bombay High Court’s direction, on May 1, but the situation on the ground has not changed much. 

Activist Speak

Sunil Yadav from Pani Haq Samiti, which works in Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar West, said that they had applied for 100 connections in May, of which only 7 connections started last week while 8 more started from Wednesday. “Though we are getting permissions, the process is moving at a snail’s pace. Even the extension of the water line is halted,” he said.