India, July 22 -- A Rs.183-crore drinking water project for Ghaziabad's Khoda colony has hit a roadblock, with the Noida authority denying consent to share its portion of Ganga water, officials of the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam said on Monday.

Located along National Highway 9, Khoda borders Indirapuram on one side and Delhi's Ghazipur area on the other. It falls under the Sahibabad Assembly constituency and is home to nearly 44,000 households, according to a 2018 survey. Despite its proximity to urban hubs, Khoda continues to lack a formal piped water supply system.

The proposed project, cleared under the AMRUT 2.0 scheme in December 2023, aimed to bring 50 million litres per day (MLD) of treated Ganga water to Khoda from Pratap Vihar's wa...