Won’t let Punjab waters go waste, says Amarinder Singh

  • | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

It will benefit 3.64 lakh peopleRs 122 crore | This project will benefit 112 villages in Rajpura, Patiala, Shambhu Kalan and Sirhind blocks of Patiala and Fatehgarh Sahib districts. They are being executed through funding from the World Bank, the National Water Quality Sub-Mission and the National Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme.The sewerage project is aimed at addressing health problems resulting from lack of proper draining of sewage. He said the contamination of water was causing health problems among people.The three surface water-supply projects, covering a rural population of 5.28 lakh, will cost Rs 475 crore. Chaura gram panchayat has provided 2.5 acres free of cost to the department for this purpose. All three projects have been tendered on a design-build, operate, maintain and transfer (DBOM&T) model.

PATIALA: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday laid the foundation stones of three projects for canal water supply in 409 villages of Patiala and Fatehgarh districts, with the promise to protect the depleting waters of the state and provide clean drinking water to its people.He also inaugurated a Rs 45-crore sewerage project for a cluster of 10 villages near Bahadurgarh in Patiala district, where excess fluoride in water is causing skeletal and dental fluorosis.Amarinder said his government would not allow its waters to go out of the state and also made an appeal to the people not to waste the precious resource and use depleting groundwater judiciously. “We will not leave anything for future generations if we don’t care for our water,” the chief minister warned, observing that the groundwater situation in Punjab was precarious.With poor farmers unable to install big motors, their plight is pitiable, he said, pointing out that his government was doing everything possible to help out such farmers through its farm debt waiver and other schemes.The entire state, said Amarinder, was facing an acute drinking water problem, which only aggravated over the years. He said the contamination of water was causing health problems among people.The three surface water-supply projects, covering a rural population of 5.28 lakh, will cost Rs 475 crore. They are being executed with financial assistance from NABARD.An official said the schemes were designed for a life span of 30 years, with daily service of 70 litres per capita. All three projects have been tendered on a design-build, operate, maintain and transfer (DBOM&T) model. They are being executed through funding from the World Bank, the National Water Quality Sub-Mission and the National Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme.The sewerage project is aimed at addressing health problems resulting from lack of proper draining of sewage. Under the project, sewage will be collected from 10 villages, starting from Bahadurgarh onwards to Mehmadpur Jattan, Shamaspur, Jalalpur, Nasirpur, Karheri, Deelwal, Noor Kherian and Choura, and will reach the sewerage treatment plant proposed to be constructed at Chaura village near Bari Nadi. Chaura gram panchayat has provided 2.5 acres free of cost to the department for this purpose. Once treated, the water will be used for irrigation. However, in no demand period, it will be disposed of into the Bari Patiala Nadi.A lateral sewerage line of 83.88km will be laid under this project and the estimated cost of the project is Rs. 45.21 crore. After the completion of this project, 5,394 households in 10 villages, having a population of 32,361, will get eco-friendly sanitation facilities.Scope of ProjectRs 112 crore | This surface water supply project will cover 92 villages, with a target population of 1.1 lakh, in Khera and Bassi Pathana blocks of Fatehgarh Sahib districtRs 241 crore | This surface water supply project will cover 204 villages in Ghanaur, Rajpura, Sanaur, Shambhu Kalan and Patiala blocks of Patiala district. It will benefit 3.64 lakh peopleRs 122 crore | This project will benefit 112 villages in Rajpura, Patiala, Shambhu Kalan and Sirhind blocks of Patiala and Fatehgarh Sahib districts. It will benefit 1.54 lakh

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