Water Supply
A nine member inter- departmental high powered project monitoring committee has been constituted by the state IT (information technology) department in a bid to expedite the completion of Info-valley project. Spread over 600 acres of land, the Info-Valley, the second IT Park in the city, has the development on slow lane, is. On the outskirts [...] Continue Reading »
To be able to meet the investment target of Rs 5000 crore in public infrastructure through public private partnerships (PPPs) for the12th Plan period (2012-17), Odisha’s state planning & coordination department has invited proposals from government departments and agencies. The PPP projects are to be taken up in socio-economic sectors like agriculture, water supply, health care, education, municipal services, warehousing, [...] Continue Reading »
Due to water scarcity, contamination of water and diseases, the government of Karnataka may have to vacate half of Bangalore in the next ten years. According to sources, lab results at the Public Health Institution and the Department of Mines and Geology of the state government revealed that 52 percent of the borewell water and [...] Continue Reading »
People think that water crisis is the major problem in Bangalore. But a survey, conducted by a non-profit organisation had disclosed that only 28 percent of water in the city is potable. The non-profit organisation started the survey from mid of January in all 198 wards of Bangalore city. The survey will be done on [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) took over the water supply service from public health engineering department (PHED). MCG will provide the water supply service from April 1 to all of old Gurgaon. Recently, the PHED and MCG had a meeting regarding this to fine-tune and discuss the process of takeover. The water supply service [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- After a delay of several days, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited expression of interest (EoI) to be chosen as the external third party auditors for the civic infrastructure projects from the private firms. With this move, all the capital works like the reconstruction and repair of the civic school and hospitals along with the [...] Continue Reading »
Hutchins Road is a victim of unplanned construction. Old bungalows are replaced with multi-storeyd apartments with no attention paid to the basic infrastructure like sewage, water and roads. Multi-storeyd apartments have come in place of independent houses which result in inadequate supply of water, overflowing manholes and unsafe pavements. The Residents Welfare association of Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
According to officials, the state government has spent more that Rs 380 crore on the sundry water supply project under the Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme. This scheme was launched in November 2006 with an aim of getting the pipe water supply to the unprivileged sections of the society. Around 96 percent of target has [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of western, southern and south eastern parts of Bangalore are facing water crisis as Bangalore Water Supply And Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is trying hard to plug leakage in the Cauvery 4th Stage Phase I pipeline. According to sources, the leakage occurred because of soil-testing work taken up by BMRC near Bangalore University on Mysore [...] Continue Reading »
The state government is planning to divide the water supply proportionately to the city as the water levels in Kabini and Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dams went down. Bangalore was hit by drought last year, which resulted in the depletion of water levels in Cauvery basin reservoirs. From November 2012, new areas of Bruhat Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
