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Action Plan to Supply Water to Ramanagaram Ready

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 11:33 administrator
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The New Indian Express            12.02.2014

Action Plan to Supply Water to Ramanagaram Ready

An action plan to supply 61 million litres of water every day to Ramanagaram city at a cost of Rs 330 crore will be sent to the Centre after getting the State Cabinet’s nod, District and Energy Minister D K Shivakumar said on Monday.

He told reporters that while 75 per cent of Kanakpura town gets water daily, Magadi town gets it once in three days, Channapatna once in two days and Ramanagaram city once a week.

Shivakumar said around 16 MLD (million litres per day) of water is supplied to Ramanagaram city against its daily requirement of 25 MLD. The action plan to draw 61 MLD from the Cauvery will take care of the drinking water needs of the city till 2045. The pipeline work to bring water to Bangalore was stopped, and the same facility will be used to bring water to Ramanagaram.

The minister said the district administration has been instructed to drill more borewells in villages.

Tank Filling

Shivakumar said the work on filling tanks is on. Ten tanks in Kanakpura taluk were filled with water from Arkavathy river. The other tanks will be filled soon.

 

Efforts on to launch Guruvayur drinking water project

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 05:20 administrator
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The Hindu              12.02.2014

Efforts on to launch Guruvayur drinking water project

Staff Reporter

The Kerala Water Authority (KWA) will buy pipes worth Rs. 4 crore for the Guruvayur drinking water project.

A meeting held here under the leadership of District Collector M.S. Jaya and KV. Abdul Khader, MLA, discussed the technical hurdles in implementing the much waited drinking water project for Guruvayur.

Officials of various departments also participated in the meeting.

The work for laying pipeline after digging the road from Chettuva to Chavakkad has been delayed for years. The company which obtained the contract said it didn’t have enough money to buy pipes. To tackle the problem, the meeting chaired by the MLA asked the KWA to buy pipes worth Rs 4 crore for the company.

In the first phase, pipes will be laid after digging the road from Manjulal to Thahani junction. The officials were given strict instructions that the next phase of digging should start only after resuming vehicle traffic after completing the road re-tarring.

Guruvayur Municipality Chairman T.T. Sivadasan, water authority executive engineer Praveen; National Highway Executive Engineer Satheesh and others participated in the discussions.

 

Cleaning drive for Rispana, Bindal riverbeds begins

Tuesday, 11 February 2014 07:47 administrator
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The Pioneer              11.02.2014

Cleaning drive for Rispana, Bindal riverbeds begins

Following the instructions of Chief Minister Harish Rawat, cleaning of the Rispana and Bindal riverbeds was finally initiated with the participation of elected public representatives, public servants and youth including Cabinet Minister Pritam Singh Panwar, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, MH Khan, Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) vice chairman R Meenakshi Sundaram, District Magistrate BVRC Purushottam, Mukhya Nagar Adhikari at Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD), Ashok Kumar, civil defence members and NSS volunteers.

Initiating the cleaning, Panwar highlighted the significance and importance of the drive which would help in maintaining the sanitation on the riverbeds. He said that this drive would also act as a preventive measure to get rid of various diseases caused due to contamination. He added that this drive is basically initiated by joint coordination of MDDA and MCD and would help in maintaining the beauty and sanitation of the State capital.

Principal secretary MH Khan said that this drive would not only help in cleaning the riverbeds but would also help maintain sanitation in riverside areas. The Chief Minister would regularly monitor this drive. He added that as per the CM’s instruction, a working plan has been prepared for cleaning the Rispana, Bindal and other small rivers of the state capital. Various parks and Clock Tower would be renovated soon, he added. The MDDA VC said that the sanitation work would be undertaken in phases and in the first phase the main rivers of the town would be cleaned, which would also help in preventing any flood like situation during the rainy season.

He further said that three nodal officers have been nominated for the cleaning of the Rispana, Bindal and small Bindal rivers. He added that the sanitation arrangement of these three rivers would most probably be completed in one month and the riversides would be fenced.

 
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