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PCB's Rs 16 cr drainage work to begin
An ambitious Rs 16-cr project of Pune Cantonment Board will be a comprehensive overhaul of the British-era sewage lines and drains.
The project will be a comprehensive overhaul of the British-era sewage lines and drains. It will witness replacement of the entire drainage system in the Pune Camp area, measuring around 75 kilometres, besides centralised collection of sewage and channelling the flow for treatment at the Pune Municipal Corporation's Mangalwar Peth sewage treatment plant.
The integrated project was conceived in 2005, and is now being taken up under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) after the PCB was included into it.
According to PCB nominated member Vinod Mathurawala, the work is divided into two main phases. The first phase
begin next week and will cover Solapur Bazaar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Market, Bhimpura-East Street, New Modikhana and Old Modikhana, and is scheduled to be completed by mid 2008. The board has sanctioned Rs 8 crore for work in these five wards.
"The project in the remaining three wards, including Wanowrie Bazaar-Fatimanagar, Ghorpadi and M.G. road, will be taken up during the second phase. The timings of the two phases will overlap as work on the second section will start by early next year even while it continues in the first five wards," said Mathurawala.
He added that contracts for each wards will be put out separately to avoid monopolisation and to facilitate simultaneous work in multiple locations.
B.N. Shirodkar, PCB chief executive engineer, said the new drainage lines would have a circumference of between one and one-and-half metre, depending upon the flow of wastes and population of the locality. The existing British-era lines are six centimetre wide and are no longer adequate to deal with the increased discharge of affluent and wastes from the cantonment localities.
"Under the new integrated project localities will have their subsidiary lines joined at a central point from which all accumulated sewage can pass on to the main line," Shirodkar said, adding that Rs 98 lakh will be used for the work in the ward of Solapur Bazaar.
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