INDIAN OFFICIAL DRAINS ENTIRE RESERVOIR TO RECOVER PHONE
A government official in India has been suspended after ordering an entire water reservoir to be drained just so that he could recover the new smartphone he had accidentally dropped into it.
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Rajesh Vishwas, a government food inspector, has become the talk of Indian social media because of his role in a selfish incident, highlighting the ignorance of some government officials in the face of India’s serious environmental issue, water shortage.
Vishwas allegedly abused his power to have roughly two million liters of water emptied from a reservoir in the city of Pakhanjur just so he could recover the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S23 smartphone he had dropped into the water. The water, uselessly drained into a nearby canal, was enough to irrigate six square kilometers (600 hectares) of farmland.
The young food inspector had gone on a picnic with his friends at Paralkot Reservoir in Pakhanjur earlier this month. The reservoir receives the overflow of water from a nearby dam, and when Vishwas tried to take a selfie with the rushing water in the background, he accidentally dropped his new phone in the reservoir.
Some local swimmers were brought in to look for the official’s phone, but after two days of searching, they came up empty-handed.
Vishwas insists that it was the locals who suggested that he drain some of the water from the reservoir to make searching for the dropped phone easier, but even though he says that he disagreed, at first, he eventually gave in to the pressure and called the water official in charge of the reservoir to ask for permission to drain it.
“He gave an oral approval, since there were only a few feet of water,” Rajesh Vishwas said in a statement. “I rented a diesel pump and emptied about three feet of water from the 10-foot-deep reservoir over a two-day period. I don’t know how much water it was, but the water is used only for bathing by those who come here for picnics. It is not used for irrigation or other purposes. The media have exaggerated the news.”
The deputy director of the Water Resources Department, admitted that verbal permission for draining the reservoir had indeed been given, but he swears that the water level had dropped by more than 10 feet, not three feet.
It did not take long for the story to go viral, and before long, Rajesh Vishwas was in hot water.
“Abusing his position, Vishwas wasted millions of liters of water during the hot season. This is unacceptable behavior that cannot be tolerated,”another water official said. The Department of Irrigation also expressed its dismay that such a significant amount of water was wasted for such a trivial reason.
“When Indian people everywhere are depending upon tanker trucks for water in our scorching summers, this officer has had two million liters of water drained, which could have been used to irrigate 1,500 acres of land,” tweeted an official of an opposition political party.
In the face of all this criticism, Rajesh Vishwas justified his decision to have an entire water reservoir drained by claiming that his brand-new Galaxy S23 smartphone contained important departmental information.
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