CM meets PM on water issue
18 April 2013 8:09 AM IST
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up a group of Ministers (GOM) to ensure water supply to Delhi. And she requested the PM to resolve the impasse between Delhi and Haryana over allocation of water through Munak Canal.
After meeting PM, Dikshit briefed media persons that the water-sharing issue would be sorted out soon.
Dikshit had told PM that Delhi requires 1,025 million gallon per day (MGD), While Delhi Jal Board is treating only 835 MGD. Unless Delhi gets water from neighbouring states, it faces a severe shortage of water, almost 200 MGD.
Dikshit has underlined the urgent need for setting of upstream storages, saying that in the absence of such facility, the capital city is able to utilise only 40 per cent of its allocation from Yamuna river.
According to Dikshit, Delhi can immediately get an additional 80 MGD of raw water if Haryana commissions the 102-km long carrier lined canal from Munak in Haryana to Haiderpur in Delhi. This canal has been constructed with the fund of Delhi as per the MoU signed by both the states and has taken an inordinately long time to complete. Delhi government had paid Rs 414 crore six years ago.
The government has also conveyed its apprehensions pertaining to loss of huge investments made in setting up three water treatment plants.
‘Expecting the availability of an additional 80 MGD of water, Delhi already constructed three new water treatment plants in Bawana (20 mgd), Okhla (20 mgd) and Dwarka (40 mgd) at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
All the three plants are now complete and are ready for commissioning,’ Dikshit said.
After meeting PM, Dikshit briefed media persons that the water-sharing issue would be sorted out soon.
Dikshit had told PM that Delhi requires 1,025 million gallon per day (MGD), While Delhi Jal Board is treating only 835 MGD. Unless Delhi gets water from neighbouring states, it faces a severe shortage of water, almost 200 MGD.
Dikshit has underlined the urgent need for setting of upstream storages, saying that in the absence of such facility, the capital city is able to utilise only 40 per cent of its allocation from Yamuna river.
According to Dikshit, Delhi can immediately get an additional 80 MGD of raw water if Haryana commissions the 102-km long carrier lined canal from Munak in Haryana to Haiderpur in Delhi. This canal has been constructed with the fund of Delhi as per the MoU signed by both the states and has taken an inordinately long time to complete. Delhi government had paid Rs 414 crore six years ago.
The government has also conveyed its apprehensions pertaining to loss of huge investments made in setting up three water treatment plants.
‘Expecting the availability of an additional 80 MGD of water, Delhi already constructed three new water treatment plants in Bawana (20 mgd), Okhla (20 mgd) and Dwarka (40 mgd) at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
All the three plants are now complete and are ready for commissioning,’ Dikshit said.
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