Tuesday, May 28, 2013

30 Latur villages for water supply scheme fixed

The leakages in 30 villages water supply scheme were recently fixed by the officials of irrigation department. The water is supplied from the Makni project. The villagers from Killari had time and again complained to the authorities regarding the leakages in the water supply pipelines which resulted into loss of precious water.

Killari had to get the water after a gap of every 20 days due to this leakage problem. The irrigation officials recently fixed the leakages. Now, water supply to Killari has been restored.
For the last many days Killari village was supplied water after a gap of every 20 days due to many reasons like leakages in the pipelines, frequent technical snag in power motors and other villagers drawing more water by tampering the valves etc
image source : thehindu.com

Overall Killari used to receive water at a very low pressure. A team of irrigation department comprising sub regional engineer B.R.Shelar, branch engineer S.P.Aghor and others recently inspected the area from Killari to Malkondji filter and closed all the valves. In addition to this, the pipeline leakages were fixed.

The engineers added that the water supply scheme to 30 villages costs almost Rs 4 lakh per month including power bill, repairs and maintenance, labor costs etc. The villagers do not pay the water tax bill regularly. The recovery of water bills is not satisfactory, and water bill of Rs 1.44 cores is still pending with the villagers.