IMPHAL, JULY 21: Five hill districts in Manipur including 381 households in Chandel, 477 in Churachandpur, 620 in Senapati, 129 in Tamenglong and 208 in Ukhrul have been fully covered under state run Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) water supply schemes.
About 350 habitations in four valley districts were also fully covered during the various schemes, while 606 habitations have been partially covered and 99 habitations not covered so far.
However, the target for the current year is to fully cover 50 habitations, says Chief Engineer of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), H Sunil, while addressing a press conference organized by DIPR in its office complex here on Thursday as part of a series of press conferences to highlight the development activities of the various departments of state.
The much awaited sewerage project for Imphal started with French assistance way back in 2004 would see the light of the day in a few months time, he added.
The project undertaken at a revised cost of Rs 323.78cr (State share of Rs 282.24 and Rs 41.54 crore French/ EAP component in kind), which would cover Imphal zone I including Municipal Ward No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 15, 24, 25 and 26 could have been completed much earlier was not materialised due to some unfortunate incidents, revealed the chief Engineer. Among these included the recent earthquake which completely destroyed some concrete pipes in Lamphel area, the destruction of pipes along Naga river by other departments among others. At present construction of treatment plant (27.00 MLD), five pumping stations, primary sewer line (25.291 Km.) and 62 % of secondary sewer line (27.365 Km. out of 44.138Km.) has been completed, informed the PHED chief.
On the drinking water supply front, the Chief Engineer said the scenario is looking up with the near completion of the Thoubal Multi purpose Project where 45 Million litres of raw water would be available per day for the Chingkheiching Water Treatment Plant. He said the construction of has been taken up by the PHED at an estimated cost of Rs 168 crore. Once this plant starts functioning, Greater Imphal city would not have any drinking water problem till 2013, he asserted.
