Minister Nehru new drinking water pumping station

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Minister for Municipal Administration K.N. Nehru connected Wednesday inaugurated a pumping presumption astatine Kambarasampettai and respective different civic projects successful Tiruchi, implemented astatine a full outlay of ₹74.84 crore.

The pumping presumption has been established connected the Cauvery riverbed arsenic portion of a caller drinking h2o strategy to service residents successful Tiruverumbur municipality panchayat, Pappakurichi, Ellakudi, Keezha Kalkandarkottai and Alathur panchayats, which autumn nether aged wards 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65, and were added to Tiruchi Corporation successful 2011. The strategy has been executed astatine an estimated outgo of ₹64.95 crore with fiscal assistance from the German Development Bank, KfW, to guarantee a proviso of drinking h2o astatine the complaint of 135 litres per idiosyncratic per day, arsenic per Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation guidelines.

Under Phase I of the project, a collector good with a diameter of 6 metres and a extent of 18 metres has been constructed successful the Cauvery riverbed. From the pumping station, drinking h2o astatine the complaint of 27.27 cardinal litres per time is supplied to residents of Wards 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 done overhead tanks with a combined retention capableness of 38 lakh litres. The overhead tanks are located astatine Pari Nagar, Pugazh Nagar, Old Ellakudi, Cauvery Nagar, Santhosh Nagar, Alathur, Ganesh Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar, too 3 existing tanks.

To facilitate distribution, 211.711 km of organisation pipelines and 21.556 km of main pumping lines person been laid. Through the scheme, drinking h2o connections person been provided to 19,343 households, benefiting a colonisation of 88,054.

Mr. Nehru besides laid the instauration chromatic for the operation of a caller schoolhouse gathering astatine Anna Nagar to relocate the Corporation Middle School presently functioning astatine Mettu Street. A sum of ₹6.60 crore has been sanctioned nether the Corporation’s Education Fund for the operation of a three-storey gathering connected an country of 11,533.63 sq. ft. The crushed positive 2 level operation volition see a headmaster’s room, unit room, 18 classrooms, a playground, sanitary complexes, and drinking h2o facilities. The task is scheduled for completion wrong 18 months, according to an authoritative property note.

Earlier, Mr. Nehru inaugurated multi-purpose bureau buildings astatine Vannarapettai, Karumandapam, Edamalaipatti Pudur, Ramachandra Nagar and Woraiyur; crematoriums astatine Kuzhimikarai and Pirattiyur; autobus shelters astatine Kumaran Nagar, Vinayaga Nagar and Geetha Nagar; a padipagam and a gym astatine Vamadam; and a toilet installation astatine Karumandapam. The instauration chromatic was laid for the operation of overhead tanks astatine Rajarajan Nagar and State Bank Colony.

Published - January 07, 2026 10:03 p.m. IST

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