Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Apr 2: The local City Corporation will initially begin supplying water round the clock in two wards, in a bid to cover all the 60 wards under its ambitious 24x7 water supply scheme in phases. This was revealed by City Corporation commissioner, K N Vijayprakash.

Services of Shah Technical Consultants Pvt Ltd, a New Delhi-based firm, have been hired to examine the feasibility of implementing this scheme.  The commissioner said that the scheme will be expanded to the other wards based on the experience in the two wards where it is proposed to be implemented first. He said that the City Corporation’s aim to supply water continuously will draw support from the new vented dam that will come up soon. One-third of the cost of the new dam, being built at a cost of Rs 48.71 crore, has to be met by the City Corporation, while the rest will be absorbed by the state government, he revealed. Survey of the land that will get submerged because of the construction of the dam is also being taken up simultaneously, Vijayprakash added.