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Rs 244-cr project to boost water supply
Srinagar: In order to provide safe drinking water to people of the valley, the government has taken up upgradation of 167 ongoing water supply schemes in all 10 districts of Kashmir division.
The Public Health Engineering Department has taken up a project to providepotable water to the uncovered population of the division at a cost of Rs 244crore, an official said.
The department had already spent Rs 146 crore on such schemes during the past financial year and planned to provide safe drinking water to 7.25 lakh persons in 624 villages in the current fiscal, the official said, adding that Rs 48 crore was being spent on the upgradation of 38 water supply schemes.
In Srinagar district, the work on three water supply schemes for covering anadditional population of 33,466 in 19 villages at a cost of Rs 1.22 crore wasunder way along with the upgradation work of two schemes for providingpotable drinking water facility to 1.41 lakh persons of Budgam district at acost of Rs 6.69 crore, he said.
He said Rs 8.75 crore was being spent on five schemes to cover one lakh persons of 108 villages in Pulwama district.
Besides, Rs 10.94 crore was being incurred on three water schemes to benefit 1.59 lakh additional persons of 99 villages in Baramulla district and Rs 4.61 crore on five schemes to cover 70,000 persons of 70 villages in Kupwara district.
In Bandipora district the upgradation work on four schemes at a cost of Rs 3.58 crore for providing safe drinking water to 60,000 additional population of 58 villages was also in progress, he added. —