Vijayawada to get new water plant

vijayawada: the vijayawada municipal corporation (vmc) will construct a new eight million gallons per day (mgd) drinking water supply plant by september 2002 at a cost of rs 4.5 crore. the municipal administration and urban development (maud) has given a go ahead to the vmc for construction of the plant on which 20 per cent of the work has already been completed.however, the maud secretary mrutyunjaya sahu directed the vmc commissioner m v satyanarayana to examine in detail the proposal for taking up another 10 mgd water supply scheme in vijayawada at a cost of rs 12 crore. sahu is understood to have told satyanarayana at a high-level meeting in hyderabad on wednesday to submit a revised proposal.