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Next JNNURM hope is also water supply Kavitha Iyer Corporator-hopefuls at the recent municipal elections were not the only ones who believed that water will be the next big battle-turf for Mumbai. For, alongside the Centre's nod for the Middle Vaitarna Water Supply project, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is also nudging its next set of projects submitted for funding under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). And all of these aim at improving water supply to the financial capital. Other projects recommended by the state-level steering committee for assistance under JNNURM include the Verawali to Adarsh Nagar tunnel (Rs 157 crore), the Malabar Hill to Cross Maidan tunnel (Rs 102 crore) and the Ruparel College to Marol tunnel (Rs 315 crore). "The technical okays have been received for the tunnel projects," said Additional Municipal Commissioner Manu Kumar Srivastava. The proposals will next go to the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee. One more project recommended by the state-level steering committee is for the replacement and rehabilitation of old pipelines, pegged at Rs 253 crore. Meanwhile, for a thirsty city with a shortfall of 900 million litres of water a day (mld), international tenders have already been floated for civil, mechanical and electrical works at the 900 mld water treatment plant at Bhandup to be constructed as a priority work under the Middle Vaitarna Water Supply Project. The qualifying criteria are steep-contractors must have designed and commissioned similar plants with a capacity of at least 450 million litres a day. The to-be-constructed dam across the Vaitarna has been designed by the Central Design Organisation, Nashik. They were appointed to prepare the design for the dam, the cost estimates and for carrying out detailed engineering studies. Also, a consortium led by Mott MacDonald is the project management consultant for the construction of an intake tower at Modaksagar involving complex hydraulics, for a 7.5-km underground tunnel as well as for the pumping station and the water treatment plant. URL : http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=224012 |
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