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Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon to build water boosting stations to augment supply

Monday, 18 November 2013 11:18 administrator
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The Times of India          18.11.2013 

Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon to build water boosting stations to augment supply

GURGAON: After taking over the task of supplying water to the areas under its jurisdiction from the public health engineering department, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is gearing up to augment the supply by constructing new water boosting stations. After years of dillydallying, the municipal corporation had at last took over the task of supplying water on October 1.

The MCG is presently supplying water to residents of old municipal committee area. Authorities say there is still a gap of around 2 MGD between demand and supply.

"According to 2011 census, there are approximately five lakh residents in the area. While the demand is over 16 MGD, we are able to generate only around 3 MGD from the 93 tubewells that are there. For the rest, we are dependent on 11.1 MGD water we receive from HUDA through the Basai water treatment plant. This still leaves a gap of around 2 MGD water. This is what we are trying to fix," said a senior MCG official.

The official said the civic body will have a three-tier planning to close this gap. The first step would be to strengthen and renovate the existing water boosting stations. "The average life of a machine is around 15 years and that of a water pipeline is around 30 years. While the machines can be replaced easily, it is a colossal task to replace the pipes," the official said.

The second step would be to replace the undersized pipes, as they are not inadequate to the growth in population. "We are preparing estimates and we will replace them soon," he added.

The third step is the most crucial. "There are certain tail-end areas that do not receive adequate supply due to its geographic location. We have decided to build two new water boosting stations in Beriwala Bagh and near Kadipur to ensure that these areas receive water. We have already commissioned two such stations in Rajendra Park and Acharya Puri recently," he said.

MCG authorities though added that there is no need for them to build a water treatment plant, as according to them, HUDA has already factored in the MCG requirement in accordance to the 2013 Master Plan.

 

Water conservation message through savings scheme agents

Monday, 18 November 2013 09:30 administrator
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The New Indian Express          18.11.2013

Water conservation message through savings scheme agents

In a campaign to popularise water conservation methods in the state, the Communications and Capacity Development Unit (CCDU) under the Water Resources Department, is joining hands with the National Savings Scheme (NSS) of the Finance Department.

Under the scheme ‘Jalasampadhyam’, set to be inaugurated at the state-level here on Tuesday, the NSS will provide the ‘army’ and the CCDU the ‘ammunition’ to take the message of water conservation to all the households in the state.

“There are around 79 lakh families in the state and between 65-66 lakh of these are visited by our agents at least once every month as part of collecting savings,” NSS Director Jose Jacob said.

“With around 11,000 agents, mostly women and many of them housewives, the NSS has the largest number of personnel than any other department. Nobody will be able to deliver the message of water conservation at the grassroot-level better.”

This “army of agents”, as Jacob calls them, will be trained by the CCDU at the state, district, sub-district and block levels over the course of the coming two months, CCDU director V Subhash Chandra Bose said.“We will introduce the resource persons of the NSS to methods of rainwater harvesting, well-recharge, creation of soak pits, and basic sanitation concepts such as not to construct toilets near water sources, how to test the quality of water etc,” Bose said.“This will help overcome our shortage of personnel as the NSS agents will take with them leaflets prepared by us when they go on their monthly calls,” he said. This, Bose said, will be a year-long campaign where the agents trained by the CCDU would visit the houses.Finance Minister K M Mani will inaugurate the scheme at the Govt Guest House here on Tuesday evening.

 

Civic operation on world class technology in Punjab soon

Saturday, 16 November 2013 10:31 administrator
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The Pioneer           16.11.2013

Civic operation on world class technology in Punjab soon

Punjab Government is mulling over installing a modern water supply and sewerage system on the lines of those found overseas.

Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi, along with a high-level delegation, had recently visited the headquarters of top companies in water supply, sewerage management and maintenance in Spain. Joshi expressed his willingness to emulate the practices adopted by them and said that the State Government would try to emulate the system as a pilot project in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Bathinda and Mohali, the release stated.

The delegation had visited Madrid, Llieda and Barcelona in Spain to assess the integrated water supply and sewerage works operated by private companies for metro municipalities. The team also held discussions with the management of these organisations regarding the modalities and prospects of undertaking integrated water supply and sewerage, operation and maintenance works on pilot basis in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Bathinda and Mohali. The Minister was highly impressed to see working of these companies in the management and delivery of civic amenities. Joshi also held discussions with management to explore ways and means to replicate same kind of system in the cities of Punjab.
 
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