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A ₹1,348-crore Jal Jeevan Mission task to supply drinking h2o to 15 grama panchayats successful Kozhikode territory volition beryllium partially commissioned adjacent month.
As portion of a reappraisal of the project’s progress, District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh precocious visited the enactment tract of the 100 MLD h2o attraction works astatine Peruvannamuzhi. Jal Jeevan Mission superintending technologist P.C. Biju informed the District Collector that the task would beryllium partially commissioned by March 31. Mr. Singh reviewed the project’s method aspects arsenic good arsenic the advancement of the allied works.
Once completed, the task volition guarantee a reliable and harmless proviso of drinking h2o to astir 5 lakh radical successful Ulliyeri, Moodadi, Kayanna, Atholi, Panangad, Koorachundu, Chengottukavu, Chemancheri, Thikkodi, Arikkulam, Nochad, Keezhariyur, Meppayur, Changaroth, and Koothali panchayats. The task has been designed to guarantee the proviso of 100 litres of h2o per idiosyncratic per day.
The task draws its h2o from the Peruvannamoozhi reservoir. Water volition beryllium pumped from the reservoir done a floating intake strategy and treated astatine a 100 MLD–capacity h2o attraction plant. The treated h2o volition past beryllium taken to retention tanks successful the task areas done gravity main pipelines. From there, drinking h2o volition beryllium supplied done organisation pipeline networks to a full of 1,26,918 connections, arsenic envisaged successful the task design.
Officials said that of the 31 works included successful the project, 24 were presently successful progress. So far, h2o connections person been provided to 1,26,918 households. Work connected the floating intake and earthy h2o pumping – main cardinal components of the h2o attraction works – has been 90% completed. Of the 96 km main organisation pipeline, 57 km has already been laid. Under the 3,304 km organisation web for supplying h2o to households, pipes person been laid implicit 2,009 km.
Officials informed the District Collector that delays successful obtaining the required clearances from assorted departments were creating hurdles for the project.
The Har Ghar Jal scheme, a constituent of the Jal Jeevan Mission that aims to supply 100% household pat connections, has already been completed successful Kunnummal and Thurayur panchayats successful the district. The task is presently nether implementation successful Kakkur, Kakkodi, Olavanna, Kuruvattur, Perumanna, and Kadalundi panchayats.
