CM lays stone for mega water supply project

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a mega water supply project worth Rs 451.24 crore with an aim to provide 24-hour safe drinking water to the people of Sambalpur. Majhi laid the foundation stone in Sambalpur city in the presence of Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Minister Rabi Narayan Naik, Revenue Minister Suresh Pujari and local MLA Jayanarayan Mishra.

One intake well and two modern water treatment plants will be constructed, and a 340 km-long water pipeline will be laid in Sambalpur city for the project, officials said. The two water treatment plants will be set up at Sambalpur and neighbouring Burla.

In a statement, the Chief Minister said that a total of 100 million litres of drinking water will be made available through the project. About 5 lakh people of the 41 wards of Sambalpur city will benefit from the project.

During the summer, the city suffers from water shortage of about 30 million litres per day.

After completion of the project, the drinking water problem in the western Odisha city will be resolved, and the city residents will be able to get 24-hour safe drinking water, he said.

The mega water supply project is a comprehensive infrastructure development effort under the Central government’s AMRUT 2.0 “Drink from Tap” scheme. It aims to provide universal coverage of safe drinking water to the residents of Sambalpur and Burla.

On completion of the project, the Sambalpur residents will be able to drink water directly from the tap as there is no need to be filtered separately.

This project is part of a larger set of 25 development initiatives worth over Rs 948 crore that the Chief Minister unveiled during his visit to the district.