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Sonia Vihar plant to distribute water from August 1: Sheila

Staff Reporter

"Flushing is almost complete, trials are being conducted"

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday announced that the 140 million gallons a day Sonia Vihar water treatment plant would start supplying water to certain areas of the Capital from August 1. "The flushing has almost been completed and trials are being conducted before water is supplied for distribution to consumers," she added.

Emerging out of a meeting of the Delhi Jal Board, Ms. Dikshit said a big function would be held to mark the production of drinking water from this project as this would go a long way in providing relief to the people of Delhi. On the issue of Under Ground Reservoirs (UGRs), the Chief Minister said 11 of the 28 UGRs had been constructed and work was being speeded up on the rest.

The Chief Minister also announced constitution of a committee to study the issue of development charges for new water connections. The Committee will be headed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Jal Board, Arun Mathur, and will include Nationalist Congress Party MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri; Jal Board Vice-Chairman Bhisham Sharma; and Congress MLA Kanwar Karan Singh; Member (Finance) Rajiv Lal; and Principal Secretary (Urban Development) O.P. Kelkar will also be a member of the committee.

The decision to form the committee was taken after Mr.Bidhuri raised objections to the Jal Board' proposal to enforce development charges at Rs. 218 per sq metre. Terming the charges as unjustified and a burden on a cross-section of society, Mr.Bidhuri said that instead of fixing a single charge the Jal Board should follow what had been done in case of development charge for getting new power connections. He suggested that for the 100-metre plot, the charges should be fixed at Rs. 6,000; for 200-metre plot, Rs. 12,000; 300-metre plot, Rs. 20,000; 400-metre plot, Rs. 28,000; 500-metre plot, Rs. 50,000.

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