Delhi water row: DJB begins drive to collect water samples

Delhi Jal Board on Saturday began a drive to collect water samples from across national capital for testing, in a bid to counter a BIS report that said city's water was unfit for drinking. "A total of 3,000 samples, five from each ward, will be collected and tested as per established rms and standard operating procedures," Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman Dinesh Mohaniya h said on Friday.

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Delhi govt alleged that BIS report was "fabricated"

" drive will counter false propaganda being spre through a fake survey," he h said. Centre and Delhi government have been tring allegations since Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan released a Bureau of India Standards (BIS) report on vember 16 which said water samples collected from 11 places in city failed quality tests on 19 parameters. According to Delhi government, samples from eight out of nine places in city that figured in BIS report were found fit for drinking in a second analysis. It has also alleged that BIS report was "fabricated" to benefit manufacturers of reverse osmosis (RO) purifiers.

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