Municipality – Facilities for drainage, roads, uninterrupted electricity supply and potable drinking water – Such pre-requisites are necessary to sustain life.
Providing drainage and road system not pompous and attractive, but in working condition and sufficient to meet the needs of the people cannot be evaded if the concerned authorities have to justify their existence. Basic grievous amenity of access to potable water is not a luxury but a prerequisite to sustain life. Any plea of financial inability or discriminatory treatment raised by any concerned authority pleas into insignificance because human rights granted under the Constitution have to be respected by the State regardless of budgetary provision. Otherwise, a pachydermic governmental agency may legally defy duties under the law by urging in self defence a self created bankruptcy or perverted expenditure budget. [ Masood Ahmad vs State of J &K. AIR 1997 J &K 75. G.D.Sharma (J)]