Government Order on water connections opposed

COIMBATORE: As local bodies here will gear up to cash in on the new Government Order that unauthorised drinking water connections can be regularised, the Coimbatore Consumer Cause has said this only seeks to legitimise a wrongful practice.

Letter

In a letter to the Secretary of Municipal Administration and Water Supply on Wednesday, secretary of the consumer body K. Kathirmathiyon said the order sought to send a wrong message that people could obtain unauthorised connections at will and be confident that these would certainly get regularised.

By not fixing a cut off date on the connections that could be regularised, the Government had only sought to encourage the practice of obtaining unauthorised connections, it was pointed out in the letter.