SC: "Right to Free drinking Water is a part of Right to Life.Supply of clean potable water is the function of municipal local bodies."

While adjudicating a Writ Petition (Civil) No.203 of 2010, instituted by a Voluntary Organization Voice of India during last month, the Division Bench of Supreme Court of India, consisting of Hon Chief Justice Mr. K.S.Radhakrishnan and Justice Mr. Swatanter Kumar, has emphasized that "Right to Free drinking Water is a part of Right to Life under Article 21 of the Constitution.Supply of clean potable water is the function of municipal corporations and other local bodies.So the water is to be supplied to every citizen in this country free of cost. We are fully conscious of the fact that even after 60 years a citizen of this country is not getting clean potable water.So where citizens do not get clean potable water for drinking, the aggrieved petitioner may move the concerned High Court with regard to its grievances, because it is a State Subject under the Constitution " It is to be noted that In this writ petition all the States and Union Territories are made party-respondents, in the large public interest.