Shimla, Apr 26 (PTI) Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress activists on Tuesday held a demonstration with empty buckets and pitchers in Shimla against water scarcity in the state’s capital.
Led by Indian Youth Congress general secretary Amarpreet Lali and HPYC president Negi Nigam Bhandari, Youth Congress activists carried out a protest march against the municipal corporation from Lower Bazaar to the deputy commissioner’s office.
The protestors carried empty buckets and pitchers in their hands during the march and broke the pitchers outside the municipal corporation office to lodge their protest.
Addressing the protesters, Bhandari claimed that water scarcity has broken its record in March this year.
Water is being supplied once in two days against the BJP’s promise of its round the clock supply in the Shimla municipal areas.
Bhandari held the negligence and mismanagement by the state government and the MC administration for the water scarcity.
Shimla city requires 45 million litres of water but it is getting only 36.67 million litres, nine million litres less than the need, he added.
They also submitted a memorandum to the Shimla deputy commissioner regarding water scarcity and many other problems in the city. PTI DJI RAX RAX
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