Water supply restored in Delhi after Army takes control

Water supplies have been partially restored in the Indian capital, Delhi, after repairs began on the key Munak canal, damaged by the agitating Jats. The canal supplies much of water to the city, BBC reported. The Army took control of the Munak canal in neighbouring Haryana state on Monday after Jat community protesters, demanding job quotas for their well-heeled community, seized it. Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra said the `crisis was still not over' and urged people to use water carefully. The city's schools, which were closed because of the crisis, have reopened. Sixteen million people live in Delhi, and around three-fifths of the city's water is supplied by the Munak canal, which runs through Haryana. Mishra tweeted on Tuesday morning that `some water has been released' from the canal. This had led to the restoration of partial supplies in north and central Delhi. He said more than 70 water tankers from these areas had been moved to the western part of the city, where partial supplies would be hopefully restored by Tuesday evening. Eighteen people have been killed and hundreds hurt in three days of riots by the Jats. Protesters went on the rampage despite a curfew and the deployment of the Army, which is reported to have opened fire on them, in the districts of Rohtak and Jhajjar. The delay in resumption of water supply resulted from Minister Mishra sitting in the Supreme Court rather than co-ordinating the restoration. The Chief Justice had to tell him to go and co-ordinate rather than make a false case out of it, reports add.