The Hindu 17.09.2009
Water supply for all urban areas
Staff Reporter
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has prepared a comprehensive plan for 100 per cent coverage of the water supply and sewerage system in urban areas under a project worth Rs.1759.73 crore.
Disclosing this here, Local Government, Industry and Commerce Minister Manoranjan Kalia said the Local Government Department was committed to providing basic civic services to the urban population such as potable drinking water, sewerage network, sewage treatment plants, roads and streetlights.
He said adequate attention was not paid in the past to sewage treatment plants, so consequently rivers, drains and canals were getting polluted and this was affecting the health of the people who depended upon canal-based schemes for drinking water.
