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Rs 209-cr drainage project okayed

Monday, 20 July 2009 12:13 administrator
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The New Indian Express 20.07.2009

Rs 209-cr drainage project okayed

ERODE: The government has approved a Rs 209.23-crore underground drainage (UGD) project for Erode.

According to official sources, Rs 71.14 crore will be given as loan to facilitate the long-pending project while Rs 62.77 crore will be obtained as grant from a German bank. The State government and the local planning authority will grant Rs 9.83 crore and Rs 3.60 crore respectively. The remaining Rs 61.89 crore will be borne by the local body, of which, the contribution from the citizens will be nearly ten per cent of the total cost, around Rs 21 crore.

Apart from the 45 wards in the civic body, Surampati, Periyasemur, Kasipalayam and Veerappanchathram municipalities and other areas which are going to be annexed with the corporation, would benefit from the scheme too.Under the scheme, toilet wastes would be collected from over 85,790 houses and other buildings by laying pipelines over a 581-km stretch.

The sewage would be pumped to six treatment plants, that will be established under the project. The treated water would be collected at Peelamedu and Kasipalayam Municipal area.

The scheme’s main aim is to check the discharge of urban sewage into the Cauvery river. The government has allotted the entire sum for the project, excluding Rs 61.89 crore. The corporation has invited global tenders for the work on July 24. The work would be carried out by segregating the town into four zones. The tender estimates would be sent to the government and then the work would commence with an aim to complete it within three years.

However, an independent councillor Radhamani Barathi recalled that the TN Water Supply and Drainage Board had already constructed two treatment plants at a cost of over Rs 7 crore in two parts of the town to treat the sewage, flowing in Pitchaikaranpallam and Perumpallam Odais (stream).

The scheme was initiated with the help of Central aid.

But, due to some technical defects, Erode Corporation refused to take over the project, so its 45- acre site in which the open treatment plant exists, has remained idle for the past many years.

Last Updated on Monday, 20 July 2009 12:15
 

Signs of Coimbatore drainage scheme taking off

Saturday, 18 July 2009 06:10 administrator
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The Hindu 18.07.2009

Signs of Coimbatore drainage scheme taking off

K.V. Prasad

By-election puts project on hold for another month after work orders are issued

COIMBATORE: After a 10-year wait, the underground drainage scheme for more than 70 per cent of the city seems set to take off. But, the city will have to wait till the by-election to the Thondamuthur Assembly Constituency (scheduled for August 18) is over.

The Coimbatore Corporation will implement the scheme under the Central Government’s infrastructure development programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Central Government will meet 50 per cent of the project cost of Rs. 377 crore through grant and the State Government 20 per cent. The Corporation will have to spend the rest 30 per cent.

It is learnt that the Corporation has issued work orders to begin two components of the scheme, but Thursday’s announcement of the by-election to some constituencies has put the scheme on hold. Indications from the Corporation are that the works will begin soon after the elections. A move for a formal start to the work on Friday was given up almost soon after it was planned, because of the announcement of the polls.

But, what offers comfort to the people in the city is the indication that a long wait for scheme is coming to an end. The Corporation aims at completing the scheme in two years. The JNNURM project period is for seven years from 2005. Besides, with the elections to the Assembly scheduled for 2011, the aim is to complete as many long-pending schemes as possible by then.

The Corporation has already begun works on establishing two sewage treatment plants – one at Ukkadam and another at Nanjundapuram. The civic body and the councillors lay stress on quick implementation of two key schemes: one for underground drainage and the other for augmenting supply of drinking water.

While it may take only another month for the drainage scheme to take off, the Corporation has begun works on the Pilloor Phase II drinking water scheme. The civic body is clear that the drainage scheme is vital to ensuring total sanitation across the city. Underground sewers will eliminate the abuse of storm water drains that are meant only for rain water.

The drainage scheme was re-worked even after it was included in the JNNURM. The mission directorate had returned the proposal to the Corporation by pointing out that the figures of the waste water discharge from houses and other establishments needed to be re-worked on the basis of the quantum of drinking water supplied.

The Corporation’s detailed project report had worked out waste water discharge figures on the basis of the 90 litres per capita per day (lpcd) supply of drinking water. But, after the implementation of the Pilloor Phase II drinking water scheme, the aim was to step up supply to 130 lpcd. Pointing out that the discharge of waste water also would rise because of this, the directorate wanted the Corporation to rework this particular aspect of the drainage scheme.

Another change made to the original proposal was the inclusion of more than 700 layouts after the house sites in these were regularised.

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2009 06:33
 

Mangalore likely to be covered under JNNURM

Friday, 17 July 2009 05:56 administrator
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The Hindu 17.07.2009

Mangalore likely to be covered under JNNURM

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: The Union Government is likely to include the areas under the jurisdiction of Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) under its Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), according to MLA N. Yogish Bhat.

If the civic body were to be covered under the JNNURM, the corporation would be entitled to receive funds from the Union Government for infrastructure development in the areas under its jurisdiction.

Mr. Bhat told The Hindu on Wednesday that S. Suresh Kumar, Minister for Urban Local Bodies, and Law and Justice, had confirmed to him that the MCC had been listed under the JNNURM.

Last Updated on Friday, 17 July 2009 06:02
 
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