Minister Warns Pimpri Chinchwad Societies Fix Your STP or Lose Your Water Connection in Two Weeks
A state cabinet minister informed the legislative council on Tuesday that the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMC would disconnect water supply to housing societies that continue to operate without functional sewage treatment plants STPs despite repeated notices with action against remaining defaulters to be completed within two weeks. PCMC had identified 126 housing societies where functional STPs are mandatory and a civic survey found 62 societies with non operational plants after which notices were issued and water connections to 26 non compliant societies were already disconnected. Among those found with a non functional STP during the survey was the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority PMRDA itself. The minister directed PCMC to issue final notices immediately to all remaining defaulting societies warning that water connections would be severed within two weeks of continued non compliance.
However housing society representatives have strongly objected arguing that residents are being penalised for failures committed by builders who either did not hand over functional STPs or installed substandard systems below required capacity before transferring projects to residents. President of the Chikhali Moshi Pimpri Chinchwad Cooperative Housing Societies Federation said builders obtained completion certificates despite failing to install proper STPs and that PCMC's own environment department officials are well aware of these systemic failures. He also pointed out that a Pimpri Chinchwad MLA had raised the same issue in the state legislature last year demanding that builders be made responsible for operating STPs for five years after project handover but the minister's assurance to examine the demand was never acted upon. Federation representatives said the government must hold builders accountable rather than punishing innocent residents for infrastructure lapses they had no role in creating.
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