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Delhi's water supply will go up: Sheila

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI FEB. 16. The Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, today attributed the delay in setting up of the Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant to the involvement of Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh in the project.

Speaking while laying the foundation of a sewer project on Dabri Road in South West Delhi, Ms Dikshit said the Delhi Government had initiated the plant as part of a long-term plan of action to address the water problem in the Capital. However, as some problems had arisen in its implementation, the Chief Executive Officer of Delhi Jal Board, P.K. Tripathi, has been instructed to undertake a visit to the two States, she said.

The plant, Ms Dikshit said, will be commissioned by September 2003 and will be the second largest in the country, providing 140 MGD of water to the Capital.

Averring that due to the ever-increasing demand for water, the water level in the city has dropped to about 250 feet, the Chief Minister said this coupled with the fact that Delhi was dependent on its neighbouring States for supply of water had necessitated the taking up of the project.

Stating that the policies and programmes of the Government during the last four years have provided long-term solutions to the city's problems, Ms Dikshit said the modern sewage disposal system she was inaugurating would also serve about 30 colonies, five urban villages in Nasirpur Palam Area and localities like Dwarka and Dabri.

Expected to be completed with 18 months, the Rs 3.10-crore trunk sewer line will run between Dabri More and Dwarka Gate. Under this scheme sewer pipelines of 300 mm to 1400 mm diameter shall be laid over nearly 2.4 km.

On completion, the sewer lines will serve about 200 hectares of area and a population of nearly 1.4 lakhs, taking the sewage from the colonies -- which was earlier flowing through open drains into the Palam drain, Pankha Road drain and Najafgarh drain -- to the sewage treatment plants.

At the function, Mahabal Mishra, MLA said the area had no sewerage infrastructure except the sewerage pumping station at Sector 7 in Dwarka. As such when the new sewerage line is completed, the residents will get relief from the problem of sewage accumulation and disposal.

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