chandigarh its been two months and owners of as many as forty eight smallscale factories located in industrial area phase 1 have been reeling under water crisis with erratic and low pressurethe factory owners who have claimed to have raised an alarm with the mc over 10 times complained that they get water for not more than 1530 minutes in the morning and that too at a low pressure in the evening there is no supply of waterfrom food processing metal washing screw producing to chemical mixing companies located in the area these factories require steady supply of water the factory owners complained that they are being forced to manage the crisis by ordering water tankers or are fetching water from the nearby taps manually in drums or plastic bottles this has affected their everyday work hourshowever an mc inspection in the area conducted three times already has failed to solve their problem said the factory ownersspeaking to toi vishal mahajan owner of taco food products said we have been managing the water scarcity by fetching water in 1520 drums from the other factories located nearby both during day time and evening we deal in bakery products and have a high requirement of water more than 70 of our production process needs water and we have been suffering a lot since two months nowinder bhushan owner of puri engineering works a screw producing company said we do not even have drinking water on normal days and i end up sending a worker with 1012 plastic bottles in a jute bag to a nearby tap to fetch it every day my operation in the factory is suffering because we need water to be put into the machines producing metal screwshe further added i have been calling a tanker almost every other day which costs rs 600 for onetime service this is not a feasible optionamit kumar owner of new naveen dhaba located near the entrance of the parking lot said that at times the water pressure is so low that they do not have sufficient water to clean the utensils we are into the business of food and are greatly dependent on water we had called for a water tanker on wednesday to tackle the crisis otherwise we get it from colony no 4 or borrow it from somewhere around said amit kumarhe also complained of receiving a water bill of rs 2492 this month without getting any supply of watermany factory owners claimed to have filed numerous complaints since the last two months but to no solution were found the mc officials have already made three rounds of inspection here and made tall promises of working on the problem but nothing has happened so far they told us that the pipes and the metre are fine as well they visited our place ten days ago said mahajanmeanwhile when asked about the same to the authorities rajinder sdo said there was just one complaint of a tubewell motor catching fire