Municipality to provide additional water connections
Staff Reporter
Deposits to be received at SBI from September 13
800 applicants waiting for supply
Residents asked to pay tax arrears
to get new connection
TIRUPUR: The Grade III Velampalayam municipality situated on Avanashi-Tirupur Highway plans to provide 2,000 more piped water supply connections to households.
The local body has started receiving daily supply of additional 7 lakh litres of water from the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited (NTADCL) from Friday.
Household connections
Municipal chairman S.P. Mani told The Hindu that the local body would receive deposits from residents through online counters at State Bank of India from September 13. Presently, the local body has 9,500 household connections and 80
0 applicants have been waiting for supply.
With the additional supply, the local body was receiving 57 lakh litres a day from NTADCL and Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board.
Mr. Mani said the additional supply would enable the municipality to supply water to residents once in five days from six days after completion of the construction of sumps in Velampalayam and Samundipuram.
The local body also supplies water through more than 600 public taps.
Rise in population
He said the local body was witnessing a sharp raise in population owing to the influx of migrants. Though official data puts the population of the town at over 45,000 in 2001, Mr. Mani said that the actual population would be close to 2 lakh now.
Additional supply
“Being a Grade III municipality we have to supply 70 litres a person a day.
But to achieve this we need additional supply of another 25 lakh litres of water to initiate alternate day supply of drinking water to residents,” he argued.
The chairman asked the residents to pay all the tax arrears to the local body directly to get new connections and cautioned them not to go to brokers.
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