Pipelines to be installed – Kerala Water Authority

18 April 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

Chief minister Oommen Chandy has said that a strategy will be formed to address the water needs of the district and instructed all the MLAs from the district to hold meetings in their respective constituencies within three days to finalize the same. Kerala Water Authority have already prepared a list of 34 locations where the drinking water pipelines can be extended using the existing projects, the chief minister also asked them to immediately install the pipelines and provide water.

The pipeline extension would require 125 km of pipes and the entire work is expected to cost around Rs 12.6 crore. In response to the complaint raised in the meeting that the Kerala State Electricity Board is not giving power connection to some water supply schemes of the local bodies as well as the KWA as they have to get huge dues from them, the chief minister said that the KSEB has been instructed to give the power connection till May 31 even if they have to collect the dues.

The chief minister also instructed the officials to immediately give water connections to all those who have applied for connection in the Japan-aided drinking water scheme. He also asked the officials to explore the possibility of linking the smalltime water supply projects with this scheme.

Source– http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/Kerala-water-authority-told-to-install-pipelines/articleshow/19624520.cms

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