The Hindu 13.03.2013
Individual water connections to more flats on the anvil
GVMC plans to cover 900 flats in next financial year.
With improved water availability, the GVMC now plans to cover more flats under individual water connections.
With
augmentation of drinking water taken up under the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission and to meet the objectives of water
supply by the urban local body, the GVMC decided to cover 900 flats in
the next financial year.
Under the mission, the
corporation has spent Rs. 85 crore for drinking water schemes at
Gajuwaka and another Rs. 80 crore at Pendurti. The 58.4-km pipeline from
Tatipudi reservoir to Town Service Reservoir was replaced at a cost of
Rs. 62.3 crore.
Though the corporation can draw 11
mgd, it has been utilising 7 mgd to 8 mgd. Against a total allocation of
72 mgd, only 56 mgd is being drawn.
“Having executed
the water supply augmentation works, the GVMC has to utilise the water
and also recover the money it has spent. On the other hand, residents
living in apartments are using groundwater and in case of its failure,
getting water tankers to meet their demand.
They are
also buying packaged water,” said a GVMC official. With increased
construction and density of population going up, groundwater scarcity
has become common.
It has decided to implement the
water supply on individual connection basis in new apartments ready to
occupy, or on the verge of being completed or just occupied.
The
general body, during its term, has resolved that for more than six
apartments Rs.5,000 has to be paid for each apartment. The amount the
builder has paid towards semi-bulk water supply will be adjusted against
the individual payment.
