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Central, State governments to share project cost Residents’ share will be in the form of deposits TAMBARAM: A massive Rs.52 crore package for improving basic amenities is in the offing for residents of Ullagaram Puzhuthivakkam Municipality near Tambaram. The Central government has given its approval for implementing the underground drainage project as well as a water supply improvement scheme. While the sewage project’s estimated cost is Rs.28 crore, the water supply scheme would need an investment of Rs.24 crore. Municipal Chairman P.A. Jayachandran said the projects would be funded by the Ministry of Urban Development through the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the State government. Residents – the beneficiaries – too would contribute. Elaborating on the financial component, senior officials of the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply said for both schemes, the Central and State governments would share 35 and 15 per cent respectively of the project cost. As for the rest, residents and the local body would contribute, in addition to a grant under a scheme of the Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (TUFIDCO). The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee of the Ministry had given the go ahead for the schemes, officials said. They added that once the State government gave the administrative and technical sanctions, tenders would be floated. The underground drainage project would include two sub-pumping stations, a main pumping station at Puzhuthivakkam and a treatment plant in Perungudi, with a capacity to handle 64 million litres of sewage a day. Officials said they expected to provide individual underground drainage connections to 10,800 of the 11,251 assessees in the local body. Residents’ contribution to the project in the form of deposits would range from Rs.3,000 to Rs.25,000 depending on the built up area of their houses. The water supply improvement scheme’s funding agencies would be the same and the financial component would be similar, but residents would not be burdened much, Mr. Jayachandran said. They planned to provide a complete internal distribution network, including providing individual connections to over 10,000 houses and creation of Overhead Water Tanks and Ground Level Service Reservoirs (sumps). This urban local body, that was upgraded as a Municipality from a Town Panchayat only a few years ago, is among the urban pockets in the southern suburbs of Chennai that does not have public fountains. Residents take water from plastic tanks installed on road sides, which are in turn filled up by lorries that collect water from a huge sump in Annai Teresa Nagar. The sump here was built in 1998 by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Till that year, residents of this urban pocket were dependant solely on their domestic wells.
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