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Good news for Pallavaram residents
Posted on: 08/Oct/2012 10:55:26 AM
There is a good news for Pallavaram residents reeling under a shortage of drinking water.The State government has given its nod for a Rs. 99.95-crore water supply improvement scheme in the municipality.
Project will be implemented by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board with the aid of World Bank under the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III
Pallavaram requires 28 million litres a day. At present, residents receive just 4 million litres. The project is expected to meet the needs of the municipality on a daily basis.
At a meeting held in the second week of September, it was submitted that the municipality would take up road restoration work at its own cost. The civic body, however, asked to be exempted the cost of laying main feeder lines from Chembarambakkam to Pallavaram to improve drinking water supply.
After it was agreed by the government agencies concerned, the project cost was once again revised to the present Rs. 99.95 crore. Of this, Rs. 59.97 will come from World Bank under TNUDP, and Rs. 29.99 will be subsidy from the Bank. The remaining amount, Rs. 9.99 crore, will have to be raised by the municipality and residents.
