Chennai to get two more desalination plants
Posted on: 17/Apr/2013 2:24:50 PM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said that the Government has set aside Rs. 2,200 crores to provide roads, street lights and drinking water to Chennai�s city and suburbs. She also announced that two more desalination plants will come up soon. One will be at Pattuipulam with a capacity of 200 MLD (million litres per day) and the other at Nemmeli which will provide 15 MLD.
Making a statement in the Assembly, Ms. Jayalalithaa said, �tThe plant at Nemmeli would cost Rs. 1,000 crore and would come up on the 10.50-acre vacant extent of land near the existing desalination plant� This plant will take care of the drinking water requirements of the extended areas of South Chennai. A total of 6.46 lakh people in Alandur, Perungudi, Kottivakkam, Puzhuthivakkam, Pallikaranai, Madipakkam, Shozhinganallur, Karapakkam, Neelankarai, Injambakkam, Chemmenchery, Uthandi and Okkiyam-Thuraipakkam will benefit from the scheme.
The desalination plant in Pattipulam would be completed in a span of four years.�
