Mayor and Commissioner reviews Water supply work progress at Jandpur

Chandigarh, August 7:- Sh. Rajesh Kumar Mayor of Chandigarh and Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh today visited Jandpur pumping station to review the actual progress of work at site.

They were accompanied by Sh. Manoj Bansal, Chief Engineer, Sh. Shelender Singh, SE, Public Health and other concerned officers of MCC.

The Chief Engineer apprised the Mayor & Commissioner that the work of bringing additional 29 MGD Raw water from Kajauli to Chandigarh under Augmentation of water supply scheme Phase 5 and 6 is nearing completion now. The work of pumping raw water from Kajauli upto Jandpur (shipur) has been done by GAMADA as a deposit work for which Rs 98 crores has been deposited by M.C Chandigarh.

The work of pumping raw water from Jandpur upto waterworks sector 39 has been done by M.C. Chandigarh at an estimated cost of Rs 89 crore. After the repair and testing of defective pipeline under the Railway track near Mehruli by Railways, the pumping was started by GAMADA by operating one pump initially from Kajauli waterworks last week.

He apprised that the water was scheduled to reach the tank at pump house, jandpur upto 8-8-2019. Directions to the officers to check and retest the functioning of pumping machinery and to clean the tanks before the arrival of raw water at Jandpur which is expected to reach there within 2-3 days.

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