Minister of PHED Chotisuh Sazo along with the secretary, Maongwati Aier, chief engineer, Er. Kevisekho Kruse and field officers visited and took stock of the progress of implementation of the project, “Providing water supply to 24 villages under Chiephobozou R.D. Block” Tuesday.
The pumping project involves creation of several balancing reservoirs of capacity of 28.5 lakhs litres and 30 lakhs litres. Once the project (which is now in advanced stage) is completed, a total of 24 water scarce villages under Chiephobozou RD block of Kohima district should be getting drinking water supply at the rate of 2.80 million litres per day.
Although impressed with the progress, Chotisuh urged upon the department to continue to on war footing so as to be able to complete the work and get it commissioned at the earliest, desirably within June or July 2017.
This is the biggest rural water supply project so far implemented by the department and is funded under NLCPR of the DoNER for a sanctioned cost of Rs 26.26 Crores.
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