Led by local councillor Lalsinh Thakore, the residents called upon Municipal Commissioner G R Aloria to say that they were not getting water supply despite lowering the heights of taps four to five feet below ground level.One of the residents told Express Newsline that they managed by taking water from the houses of few people who got the supply.

``A majority of us have to make do by getting water from handpumps installed in slums nearby'', he said.

The residents were drawn out from Sona Park, Rambaug, Sureshpark, Tulsidham and Bhaktinagar Societies on the Makarpura Road.

Assuring them the he would soon look into the matter, Aloria said that for the present Fire Brigade water tankers would start supply. A resident said that a few of them had spilt costs on private tankers which charged Rs 200 each.

Aloria said that with the setting up of a filteration plant at Nimeta by Diwali, the city would start getting an additional 1 crore gallons of water from Ajwa reservoir. He claimed that the additional supply would help solve the problem in the southern parts of the city.

He further informed the delegation that the Vadodara Municipal Corporation has sanctioned about Rs 50 lakhs towards laying a network of pipelines in Maneja where bore-well water is not potable.