The Hindu 12.02.2010
Development works inspected
— Photo: K. Ganesan 
Spot-check: Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathi (third from left) inspecting a sewage treatment plant at Vellaikal in Madurai on Saturday.
MADURAI: Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathi inspected various development works taken up by the Corporation on Thursday.
At Vellaikal, where he inspected the on-going construction works of sewage treatment plant (STP), he was told that it would be the biggest such facility planned in the country with sequential batch reactors, a newer technology. The plant here was designed to treat 125 million litres of sewage a day. The 100-MLD plant set up in Navi Mumbai had been the biggest so far.
The officials told him that the new technology occupied only 10 per cent of the land which is otherwise required to set up the conventional STP. Besides, it consumed less power, and operational cost was also lesser.
Mr. Sripathi later inspected lining work of drainage channel at Virattipathu and basic infrastructure development works taken up for the urban poor near Central prison.
Director of Municipal Administration B. Senthil Kumar, Corporation Commissioner S. Sebastine, Chief Engineer K. Sakthivel and District Revenue Officer Dinesh Ponraj Oliver were among those who accompanied him.
