Water projects: Rs 1,050 crore JNNURM funds lying unused

HYDERABAD: A file pertaining to granting administrative sanction to five water-related projects at a cost of Rs 1,050 crore is gathering dust. Successive governments have been ignoring it, causing inconvenience to lakhs of citizens in LB Nagar, Serilingampally, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru municipal circles.

The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) in February had sanctioned Rs 1,050 crore under the transition phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB) to complete five major projects.

The CSMC has cleared a comprehensive water supply scheme for GHMC Serilingampally circle at a cost of Rs 439.51 crore, water supply distribution network for LB Nagar circle at Rs 365.17 crore, laying a 1800 mm diametre pipeline from Osmansagar to Asifnagar water treatment plant (WTP) in place of the existing water conduit at Rs 109.039 crore, distribution network for Ramachandrapuram municipal circle at Rs 78.89 crore and water supply distribution network for Patancheru municipal circle at Rs 58.198 crore.

Following the sanction, the Water Board approached the then united AP government but its pleas fell on deaf ears. The model code of conduct came into force subsequently. They therefore knocked on the doors of the AP chief electoral officer (CEO) again to process the file on tender notification but to no avail. "After the Telangana government came into existence, we approached the MA&UD department and asked them to issue the necessary GOs regarding administrative sanction to the five projects," HMWS&SB projects director M Satyanarayana told TOI.

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No BMC plan to roll back water cut

Mumbai: Though heavy rainfall in catchment areas in the past 24 hours has added 32 days of water stock, the BMC has no plans to withdraw 20% supply cut any time soon. Only, the threat of the BMC increasing the cut has eased.
On Monday, the total water stock in all the lakes stood at 3.7 lakh million litres and on Tuesday rose to 4.9 lakh million litres. Civic officials said it is too early to roll back the cut as the city needs 12.5 lakh million litres for the entire year and it does not have even half the requirement so far. "The cuts will continue for a while.

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New treatment plant in Gurgaon generates power from sewage

GURGAON: Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has taken measures to utilize methane gas produced at Dhanwapur sewage treatment plant to meet its electricity requirement.

SDO B D Yadav said 1750kW power is needed to run the two STPs of 168 million litre per day (MLD) capacity. However, with the construction of new 100 MLD plant, 800kW power will be generated from the methane produced at the facility.

"The newly constructed 100 MLD plant is being run on trial since July 1 and within three weeks it will be fully functional. After the three months trial is over, the methane gas produced by the plant will be used to produce 800kW of electricity," said Yadav.

He further said that earlier the 68 MLD plant used to dispose the untreated water into the Najafgarh drain. "With the new 100 MLD STP in place, tertiary treatment of 25 MLD waste water will be possible which can be supplied to builders for use at construction sites," he said.

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Pune to have 10 new pools by next year

PUNE: Ten new swimming pools will come up in different parts of the city by next summer. Officials of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said that most of the swimming pools are coming up in the fringe areas of the city as it has been a long pending demand of the residents in these areas.

The establishment department of PMC is implementing this project. "The construction of the pools is underway. It will be ready by the end of this financial year," said Sandeep Khandwe, executive engineer of the department.

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SMC to build elevated swimming pool for public

SURAT: It is not uncommon to have swimming pool either made in terrace or on floors of the private multi storey apartments. However till now in Diamond city of Surat, Local civic body doesn't have any swimming pool for public purpose that is an elevated structure.

Keeping this fact in mind, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC)'s Public works committee has approved the estimates of Rs 8.86 crore to construct the city's first elevated swimming pool. This pool will be built on reserved plot of SMC located opposite DRB Bhana College

In Vesu . The pool will be of 25x50 meters and there will be a man empowerment center . There will be parking on ground level , plant room , change room, exercise room, reception, refreshment segment , store and passage also come up on ground level of the structure.

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