New Delhi, March 27 The Delhi government is working on a new domestic borewell policy for the national capital, with some of the bureaucratic hurdles removed, Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma said on Friday.
Speaking in the Budget Session of the Delhi Assembly, the minister said that under the policy, permissions will be granted to domestic consumers for a small fee.
"Currently, many illegal borewells are operating in the city. Notices are being served to people. Also, several permissions are required to set up a borewell. We will eliminate all this. Soon, the Delhi government will announce a new borewell policy under which permissions will be easily granted to domestic users," Verma said.
He said that the chief minister has directed that the entire process should be made easy without the need for a no-objection certificate from the district magistrate.
Better water management will be the aim of the government to meet the current drinking water needs of the city, Verma added.
Officially, Delhi has around 5,000 borewells, but authorities claim the actual number is much higher.
Meanwhile, Verma also said that the government is working on increasing the city's overall sewage treatment capacity to 1,500 million gallons per day (MGD) in the next few years.