Jamshedpur : The State Drinking Water and Sanitation Department (DW&SD) Minister Jai Prakash Bhai Patel who was in city to review department�s project in Kolhan commission said that construction work on the Rs 272 crore Bagbera-Govindpur piped water supply will begin by September 2014.
�We have completed the tender process for the much delayed World Bank funded project and the technical evaluation will be completed by June. The construction work will commence within two months,� Patel said.
The project which had been on paper since 2006 and benefit over 4 lakh populace residing in southern fringe of city in Bagbera, Kitadih, Ghaghidih, Parsudih and Govindpur has witnesses series of agitation by residents facing water crisis for the last few years.
He also said that all Government schools in the state will have toilets by December 2014.
Talking to the media at Circuit House he informed that the department has submitted an affidavit in this connection to the Jharkhand High Court while replying to a PIL.
When questioned over the water crisis in the State, he said that the Government has plans to start rural piped drinking water supply in every village of the State. The project is expected to be completed by 2017.
The minister also said that the first phase of the Rs 64.18 crore Mango water project is complete and would be inaugurated very soon. The Mango project � aiming to supply 48 million litres per day � started in 2005 as a public-private partnership between state drinking water and sanitation department and Tata Steel subsidiary Jusco.
At present, against a demand for over six million litres of water a day, three lakh Mango residents receive less than a third, that is, less than two million litres.
The Rs 64.18 crore ambitious drinking water project, as per affidavit filed by East Singhbhum district administration before Jharkhand High Court in December last year, was to commence from March 31, 2013.
As the stage is being set for the inauguration of Mango Water Drinking Project protests have irrupted from different section of society.
The project has missed a number of deadlines. The project is scheduled for inauguration on June 30.
