Repair work at Hry water canal on, normalcy by tomorrow: DJB

A day after a portion of the boundary of channel-lined canal (CLC), or the Munak Canal, broke near Barwasni village at Sonepat district in Haryana, affecting the supply of raw water to parts of the Capital, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officials on Sunday said a team has been dispatched to the site of the breach to oversee repair work of the canal, which is likely to take 48 hours.

- Paras Singh

DJB said that the cause for the breach is yet to be ascertained. The breach, around 20km upstream of the DelhiHaryana border, is near the same spot where another breach occurred four months ago, on June 14, the officials said.

A senior DJB official said operations at Haiderpur water treatment plant were affected after it received less raw water from CLC and Delhi Sub Branch (DSB) canals. "The channel was breached on October 7 early in the morning near Badwasni village, and restoration work started at llam the same day. A team of DJB officials has been deployed to visit the repair site. Haryana has provided us verbal assurances that the canal will be restored in two days, by Tuesday," the official said.

HT reached out the Haryana government, but officials there did not respond to queries about the breach in the canal.