In Indira Vihar, Ward 63, near the Abkari police station, residents say roads were dug up for sewer lines 12-15 years ago but piped drinking-water connections were never released by the water department. Residents describe buying private water tankers at ₹300-350 per fill to make up the shortfall — an ongoing cost that a functioning piped connection would remove. In a separate case in a JDA-approved group housing project in Sector 7, Vidyadhar Nagar, residents say development charges covering sewerage and water infrastructure were collected 8-10 years ago, but the water and sewer lines the charges were meant to fund still haven't been laid, despite repeated complaints.
Both cases were raised by named residents — Seema Tailor in Indira Vihar and Rajendra Kamdaar in the Vidyadhar Nagar project — as part of a citizen-complaint initiative tracking unresolved civic issues across Jaipur. In neither case does the reporting show a JDA or Nagar Nigam response with a fix date; residents describe repeated complaints without a change on the ground. No official response had been reported at the time of writing.
For residents, the gap between paying development or connection charges and actually receiving the service is not a minor inconvenience — it is years of recurring cost (private tankers, informal water arrangements) on top of charges already paid once for infrastructure that should have covered it. For prospective buyers, it is also a due-diligence lesson: a colony being "JDA-approved" or a project having collected development charges does not by itself guarantee that water and sewer connections have actually been laid and commissioned.
If you live in a colony or project where water or sewer connections were promised, charged for, or partly built but never commissioned, the practical step is to file a written complaint — not just a verbal one — with the water department (for drinking-water connections) or the concerned JDA/Nagar Nigam zonal office (for sewer lines under a development scheme), and keep the complaint reference. A documented complaint, ideally filed jointly with other affected residents in the same colony, creates a record that can be followed up and cited if the matter needs to be escalated.
Haqdar can help you check, before you buy into a colony or JDA-approved project, whether water and sewer infrastructure has actually been completed and commissioned rather than only sanctioned or charged for.