Kerala
Chowara scheme trial run may be held next week
Staff Reporter
Poll code of conduct to delay commissioning of water projects Poll code to delay commissioning of KWA projects
KOCHI: The coming Assembly elections have put a dampener on completion of water supply schemes in the city. However, Kerala Water Authority officials say that the completed projects can be operated even if not commissioned officially.
Completion of the 63-mld (million litres a day) Chowara Water Supply Scheme, slated for commissioning by mid-March, is likely to get delayed.
The authority is hoping to start the trial run of the project, which will benefit people in eight panchayat areas and North Paravur municipal limits, by next week. Laying of 1 km of the main pumping line from Chowara to North Paravur is yet to be completed.
Installing a transformer at North Paravur is another major work remaining. Setting up of raw- and clear-water pumps at Chowara is under way.
Minister for Water Resources Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan had promised that zone 3 of the DFID-assisted water supply scheme for West Kochi would be completed within 45 days of the partial commissioning of zone 1 of the project.
The officials say zone 3 can be made operational before the stipulated period by March 31. Only a little more work remains, according to them, which includes laying of pipes for 1 km from Beach Road to Karuvelippady.
The Chowara scheme, work on which started in April 2003, was expected to be completed by December 2005. The date was later extended to January 31, 2006, and then to March 2006. The first trial run was expected to begin on December 15, 2005.
The Chowara scheme appears to be the fastest project being completed by the authority, with only three years taken so far, while many other projects have crossed even 10 years. The work is being carried out by the Kerala State Construction Corporation.
However, even if all these projects are completed within the next two months, residents of Kochi will not get any additional supply of water unless the much-awaited Ad hoc Water Supply Augmentation Scheme (formerly known as Hudco Scheme) is completed.
Though one of its phases, for taking water to Vypeen from Vaduthala, was commissioned last year, to gain the full benefit, the additional quantity of water pumped from Aluva Headworks have to reach the main line in the city. But the tender for laying pipes on the Pukkattupadi-Palarivattom bypass sector has only been sent for Government approval.
Besides that, the tender awarded to FACT Engineering Works (FEW) for laying pipes from Elamkulam to west Kochi has been cancelled, citing delay in carrying out the work. FEW had also asked for raising the work cost, according to authority officials. But it is said that the organisation is forced to ask for a higher cost owing to the delay caused by problems in land acquisition.
(The Hindu - 10/03/06, Friday)
Chowara scheme trial run may be held next week
Staff Reporter
Poll code of conduct to delay commissioning of water projects Poll code to delay commissioning of KWA projects
KOCHI: The coming Assembly elections have put a dampener on completion of water supply schemes in the city. However, Kerala Water Authority officials say that the completed projects can be operated even if not commissioned officially.
Completion of the 63-mld (million litres a day) Chowara Water Supply Scheme, slated for commissioning by mid-March, is likely to get delayed.
The authority is hoping to start the trial run of the project, which will benefit people in eight panchayat areas and North Paravur municipal limits, by next week. Laying of 1 km of the main pumping line from Chowara to North Paravur is yet to be completed.
Installing a transformer at North Paravur is another major work remaining. Setting up of raw- and clear-water pumps at Chowara is under way.
Minister for Water Resources Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan had promised that zone 3 of the DFID-assisted water supply scheme for West Kochi would be completed within 45 days of the partial commissioning of zone 1 of the project.
The officials say zone 3 can be made operational before the stipulated period by March 31. Only a little more work remains, according to them, which includes laying of pipes for 1 km from Beach Road to Karuvelippady.
The Chowara scheme, work on which started in April 2003, was expected to be completed by December 2005. The date was later extended to January 31, 2006, and then to March 2006. The first trial run was expected to begin on December 15, 2005.
The Chowara scheme appears to be the fastest project being completed by the authority, with only three years taken so far, while many other projects have crossed even 10 years. The work is being carried out by the Kerala State Construction Corporation.
However, even if all these projects are completed within the next two months, residents of Kochi will not get any additional supply of water unless the much-awaited Ad hoc Water Supply Augmentation Scheme (formerly known as Hudco Scheme) is completed.
Though one of its phases, for taking water to Vypeen from Vaduthala, was commissioned last year, to gain the full benefit, the additional quantity of water pumped from Aluva Headworks have to reach the main line in the city. But the tender for laying pipes on the Pukkattupadi-Palarivattom bypass sector has only been sent for Government approval.
Besides that, the tender awarded to FACT Engineering Works (FEW) for laying pipes from Elamkulam to west Kochi has been cancelled, citing delay in carrying out the work. FEW had also asked for raising the work cost, according to authority officials. But it is said that the organisation is forced to ask for a higher cost owing to the delay caused by problems in land acquisition.
(The Hindu - 10/03/06, Friday)
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