26 pipelines pilfering water from Halvad’s Brahmani-2 dam disconnected

Morbi: A multi-departmental team entrusted with surveillance duty has disconnected 26 pipelines pilfering water from the Brahmani-2 dam located near Suryanagar village of Halvad taluka.

A local daily had reported that the Brahmani-2 dam became empty just a month after it was completely filled using the Dhrangadhra branch of the Narmada canal because of which over 100 villages of Morbi, Maliya, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Tankara were still not receiving sufficient supply of drinking water.

In response to the report, the district collector had constituted a 14 member team from PGVCL, the irrigation department and the Halvad police to crack down on incidents of water pilferage from the Brahmani-2 dam. The 14 member team, working in shifts of 8 hours each, have disconnected pipelines of 26 people that were used to pilfer water from the said dam. DeshGujarat