Even though the NCR water plan meant for providing immediate relief to the water woes of old Gurgaon was conceived three years back, MCG has no action so far.
The blueprints and the budget for the project were readied by the public health department of Gurgaon. But when the proposal was sent to the state government, it was instantly vetoed, and the public health department was instructed to pass over the project details and plans to the then newly-formed municipal corporation.
But it has been more than three years since the MCG has been sitting on this project, which seems to have been shelved indefinitely.
A senior official of the public health department said that they were told categorically by the state government to pass the ready details and budget sheets to the MCG in 2009.
If the project was granted, it would have taken us three years for completion, he said. But because the government rejected public health departments proposal, this plan has appears to have been pigeonholed under the MCG.
The existing water supply lines in old Gurgaon were laid around 35 years back, and all these lines still lie in the same disorderly and haphazard way. Our plan was to replace the lines. Remove the existing ones which are now outdated, and set up new pipelines instead, said the official.
Water supply lines in the old town are all currently composed of PVC, a material which is not even officially prescribed anymore. According to the norms, the pipelines have to be cast iron or ductile iron for better longevity, and our water project was supposed to focus on removing all PVC pipelines in old Gurgaon, said the official.
The other main points of the project were regarding the widening of the water pipes. The population of old Gurgaon has massively increased in the last decade or so, and the demand for water has also gone up, said the executive engineer of the public health department, Pradeep Kumar. He said that widening of the pipes would have made sure that a better quantity of water is supplied to these areas. There is about 450 kilometre of pipelines all over old Gurgaon, and the whole network requires attention and a large amount of work, said Kumar. Officials of the municipal corporation were not available for comment.
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