With a total of 33,139 complaints received in a year from 48 wards of the city, drinking water in Ahmedabad remains an issue for the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC).
The highest number of complaints regarding the polluted drinking water were received from Khadiya ward with 2,255, followed by Saraspur with 2,027, Nava Vadaj with 1,810, and Danilimda with 1,277 complaints within a year.
Despite a mammoth outlay of ₹12 crore for the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) budget, Ahmedabad’s administration has failed to provide basic, clean drinking water to the citizens.
With the increasing complaints of polluted water in Ahmedabad, cases of waterborne diseases are also on the rise.
In April 2024, a total of 13 cases of jaundice, typhoid, and cholera had been reported in the city.
Every year, despite large spendings on pollution-related issues, complaints have been pouring in from the same area.
Over the past two years, the AMC has plans for replacing the old water and drainage lines in six wards of the central zone, including the walled city.
Recently, a tender was announced to replace the water and drainage lines in the six wards of the central zone at a cost of ₹333 crore. However, despite such mammoth expenditures, citizens await clean drinking water in Ahmedabad.