India, June 3 -- New Delhi

Lieutenant governor (LG) Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Tuesday approved the nomination of Satish Upadhyay, a former ex-chair of the New Delhi Municipal Council and ex-Delhi chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as the vice-chair of the Delhi Jal Board, the LG's office said in a statement.

Other members to the DJB were also approved, including legislators Manoj Kumar Shokeen and Ajay Kumar Mahawar, and Rajesh Kumar Goel from the Delhi Cantonment Board (DCB), it said.

The approval comes amid the national capital reeling under acute water supply cross over the last 12 days. Also, the DJB vice-chair post has remained vacant for almost a year, since the BJP former the government. "These nominations have been made ...