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Wednesday, Dec 22, 2004

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HUDA inks deal with Japanese agency

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, DEC. 21. The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) came closer to implementation of its Rs. 300-crore Hussainsagar Lake Restoration Project when it signed an MoU with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in New Delhi on Tuesday on technical assistance and capacity building.

The MoU is a pre-requisite for the project to be taken up by the HUDA with Rs. 260 crores loan from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

As per the agreement, the HUDA would get technical assistance and capacity building grant to the tune of Rs. 5 crores to train its personnel for enhancing their core competence to handle the complex subject of waster water studies and lake management.

The MoU was signed by the HUDA Vice-Chairman, G. Ashok Kumar, the JICA representative, Mitseo Yoshita, in the presence of the Joint Secretary, Urban Development, M. Rajamani, and the JICA Resident representative, India.

Mr. Ashok Kumar told The Hindu over phone that this was the first time technical assistance was extended to a lake management project.

He said though JBIC had agreed to extend loan for the project in principle and followed it up with feasibility studies, the technical assistance would result in further capacity building and equip HUDA to be a nodal agency for extending its expertise to other State agencies.

The next step would be preparation of Special Assistance for Project Formulation, and consultants selected by the JBIC would come to Hyderabad in January and submit their report on the main project by April-end or May.

The actual work would commence after the clearance of the project report by the JBIC, he said.

The project is not merely for cleaning up the lakebed of its toxicity but also to eliminate pollutants at their source level.

The project comprises construction of latest treatment plants, upgrading the existing 20 million litre sewage treatment plant near Tank Bund, dredging of the lakebed to remove toxic sediment and shoreline development with green belts.

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