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The Vellore Corporation has accelerated tracked its ongoing enactment to laic ample underground pipelines connected the work lane of Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48), maintained by NHAI, adjacent Green Circle, a roundabout beneath the agelong successful Vellore, to comple the enactment earlier Pongal 2026.
It comes successful the aftermath of dense postulation snarls connected the work lane towards Old Town and adjacent Green Circle during unreserved hour. Ambulances, schoolhouse and assemblage buses get stuck connected the agelong owed to a ample trench dug up by the civic assemblage for underground pipeline enactment for much than a fortnight. “The pipeline enactment adjacent Green Circle is cardinal to link caller pipelines from streets to the caller Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). This enactment is the large remaining underground pipeline enactment nether the project. The full enactment volition beryllium completed by Pongal 2026,” R. Lakshmanan, Commissioner, Vellore Corporation, told The Hindu.
Corporation officials said that arsenic the work lane and Green Circle witnesser immense postulation flow, the civic assemblage is allowed to undertake pipeline enactment betwixt 11 p.m and 3 a.m. Unlike different tube laying work, these caller pipes are laid astatine slightest 9 metres successful extent owed to an existing underground drain of NHAI connected the stretch. The pipeline enactment is being done to a region of astir 300 metres. As a result, the enactment was delayed.
At present, the 650 metres-long pipe-carrying span on Palar River volition transportation household drainage successful 32 wards, mostly from Old Town areas to caller STP astatine Viruthampattu adjacent Katpadi. The span is being built astatine a tallness of 20 feet from the riverbed to forestall inundation during monsoon. The caller STP has a capableness of 50 MLD.
The multi-crore project, which was rolled retired successful 2019, particularly from its signifier - II enactment onwards, comprises main sewer lines, pumping and lifting stations, and sewage attraction plants, covering each 60 wards that has astir 8 lakh residents wrong civic assemblage limits.
Corporation officials said that of 900 stretches damaged owed to underground pipeline enactment for the project, the civic assemblage has laid 534 stretches wrong its limits astatine a outgo of ₹ 46 crore, covering a region of 52 km. Around 350 further damaged streets person been identified for relay successful the coming days. The civic assemblage has sought ₹ 25 crore for the enactment from the State government.
Corporation officials said that astatine present, the civic assemblage has astir 81,000 connections wrong its limits. Once drainage enactment is completed, consumers volition beryllium asked to get idiosyncratic location connections successful January. By then, astir of the damaged stretches volition beryllium re-laid.
