AJMER: Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is now planning to transport Chambal water through train, from Bhilwara to Ajmer to save water in the Bisalpur dam. The proposal was put forward in the high-level meeting held at Jaipur last week. Till 2016, water was transported to Bhilwara through the water train from Ajmer, but now Bhilwara is connected with Chambal river water.In the year 2016, when Bhilwara was facing scarcity of drinking water, officials of PHED supplied 50 crore litres of water to Bhilwara in the six months during summers. The then superintendent engineer Sunil Singhal, managed the supply of water to Ajmer as well as that in Bhilwara.The water train took four hours to fill the water from Nasirabad water station and took three to four hours to travel 110 kilometres, and five hours to empty the water at Bhilwara and return. The water train supply remained operational for years when Bhilwara was facing water scarcity.But in 2017, Bhilwara started getting water from Chambal river and is therefore now no longer dependent on Ajmer for Bisalpur water.Officials said that in the high-level meeting, a proposal was put forward to transport water from Bhilwara, as the department is still holding the structure, “The government has asked to prepare a report of the proposal,” said an official. He added that if the water of Chambal will be transported to Ajmer from Bhilwara, that will ease the situation of Ajmer as well as that of Jaipur.

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