The Hindu 04.02.2014
Pudukottai municipality to take over underground drainage facilities
Rs. 48.16-crore project includes 158-km-long sewage lines, 5,400 manholes
The preliminary works for handing over the underground
drainage project facilities are nearing completion and the Tamil Nadu
Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, the executing agency for the
project, will handover them to the municipality by April.
All
the works connected to the underground drainage have been completed and
the sewage treatment plant will become functional once the project is
commissioned.
The project implemented at an outlay of
Rs. 48.16 crore includes State government’s grant of Rs.24.35 crore and
municipality’s share of Rs.11.76 crore. The project includes a loan
component of Rs. 12.05 crore.
The project entails
158-km-long sewage lines and 5,400 manholes. The sewage treatment plant
was set up on a sprawling area of 28 acres of municipality land at
Pulpannai . The municipality has already relaid roads dug for burying
underground pipes. A total of 15,000 domestic and commercial units would
be covered under the underground drainage network, said S.A.S.Sait
alias Abdul Rahman, Municipal Chairman (in-charge).
The
project was discussed at length at the recent municipal meeting, and
Manivelan, a DMK councillor, referred to road accidents in his wards
caused due to damaged manholes and sought immediate remedial action. Mr.
Sait said that municipality has taken into consideration all these
shortcomings and they would be rectified. A plan to extend the facility
to the newly-added wards has also been sent to the government, he added.