NAGPUR: To overcome opposition from citizens to construction of overhead water tanks in their areas, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will be constructing double-decker elevated storage reservoirs (ESRs). The idea is to take up less space as compared to that required for constructing two ESRs in the same area.
The first such ESR, a brainchild of water works committee chairman Vijay Zalke, will come up in Chakrapani Nagar in east Nagpur. In this project, an ESR will be constructed atop another.
Addressing media on Thursday, Zalke said citizens want water but they are opposed to construction of ESRs in their localities. “As a result, the civic body has come up with first-of-its-kind proposal of constructing a double-decker ESRs having 2.2 MLD capacity each,” he said.
Through the Amrut scheme, the NMC will spend around Rs10 crore to construct the double-decker ESRs within one and a half year. “The overhead tank will help in strengthening water supply to Prabhag number 34 of east Nagpur covering almost 3km radius,” he said.
After serving as water works committee chairman for three years, Zalke will hand over the charge to BJP corporator Sandip Gavai early next month.
Zalke said during his tenure he emphasized on increasing the number of ESRs. Three new ESRs — Chandrabhaga Nagar, Bharatmata Nagar and Sambhaji Nagar — having capacity of 2.27 MLD were charged and construction of another two — Gorewada ground storage reservoir (3 MLD) for Mangalwari zone and Babulban ESR (2.27 MLD) for Lakadganj zone — has been completed. These two will be charged in March, he said.
“In 2018, the city had 10 command areas, which today have increased to 23,” he said. According to him, the NMC has also reduced non-revenue water by almost 8 MLD per day. He added that volume of water supplied in 2018 was 665 MLD and now in 2021 it is 657 MLD.
Zalke said his decisions helped NMC plug age-old leakages in Navegaon-Khairi raw water pipeline and plug wastage of 7 MLD water every day. He was also instrumental in installing seven big flow meters and 54 small flow meters to monitor the quantum of water supply to the city.
According to Zalke, his work included no water to water conversion in 270 areas, alternate day water supply to regular water to 132 areas, 24X7 water supply in 25 command areas and resolving problem of contaminated water supply of 128 areas.
“I also accelerated the work of laying pipelines and increasing household connections. In three years, around 90.24km of new pipelines were laid and 78,113 household connections were given,” he said.
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