The Hindu 19.04.2010
Water Resources Data Centre to come up
Staff Reporter
PUDUCHERRY: A State Water Resources Data Centre and a level II+ laboratory building will come up under the Hydrology Project-II at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.25 crore.
Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam inaugurated the construction work for the facilities on Sunday. The State Water Resources Data Centre and laboratory building will be established at Lawspet.
Besides these facilities, the territorial government is working toward establishing necessary infrastructure for collection of water-related data and conducting a purpose driven study to improve groundwater potential in the north western parts of Puducherry, under the project. Approval of the Government of India and World Bank has been obtained for the same, according to a press release.
The Centre was implementing the hydrology project phase-II in 13 States and 11 Central agencies, with credit assistance from the World Bank through the Ministry of Water Resources.
For Puducherry, the cost of hydrology project-II is Rs. 13.18 crore. The project period spans for six years starting from 2006-2007 to 2011-2012.
Creation of a water information system containing exhaustive information in a single platform in a unified format throughout the country was the basic idea.
Public Works Minister M.O.H.F. Shahjahan, Chief Engineer of PWD S. Manohar, Director of Agriculture R. Sathiyaseelan, Project Coordinator of Hydrology Project-II G. Durairaj and Nodal Officer of the project V. Radhakrishnan were present.
