The Hindu 01.04.2013
New wards may get more drinking water soon
Commissioner asked to initiate a feasibility study on the scheme.
The Tiruchirapalli City Corporation has decided to
prepare a feasibility report and design a new scheme, either through the
Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board or a private consultant, to
augment drinking water supply to residents of the five new wards on a
par with other parts of the city.
The corporation has
decided to execute a new drinking water scheme for the five new wards
that have been added to it recently. The wards – 61 to 65 – are spread
over Tiruverumbur Town Panchayat, and Pappakurichi, Ellakudi, Keezha
Kalkandarkottai, and Alathur panchayats, all in the eastern suburbs of
the city, were merged with the corporation following delimitation.
Though
the areas are served by two combined drinking water schemes from
Tiruverumbur, the corporation intends to increase the per capita water
supply to the residents of the five wards to 135 litres a day on a par
with other parts of the city and in line with the norms of Central
Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation of the Union
Urban Development Ministry.
At present, residents in
the new wards are getting about 70 to 100 litres a day. The drinking
water supply augmentation scheme under execution in the city with an
investment of Rs. 221.42 crore with assistance from Japan International
Cooperation Agency, designed prior to the merger of the civic bodies,
will not cater to the five wards.
The council at its recent meeting approved a resolution empowering the Commissioner to initiate necessary action.
The
TWAD Board or the consultant would be asked to prepare a feasibility
report and the detailed project report and design the new water scheme
and identify funding options.
The council approved
tenders for hiring private water tankers to fill the PVC tanks, each of
2,000 litres capacity, at 56 places in the five wards. The move is a
temporary measure until a new scheme is executed.
