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Contractors sought more than the estimated project cost on previous occasions 22 of the 30 wards will be covered, 7,000 house connections will be provided CHENNAI: The underground drainage project in Madhavaram is finally set to take off, two years after it was proposed, with Chennai Metrowater, the implementing agency, planning to float tender by this month-end. Work on the first phase of the project, for which contractors did not evince interest when tenders were floated twice earlier, is expected to begin in about three months. An official of Madhavaram Municipality said on both the occasions, the contractors sought more than the estimated project cost to offset the increase in the price of construction materials. The contractors’ demand was approved by the Municipality council members and the State Finance department in March this year. Consequently, the project cost was increased from Rs.26 crore to Rs.32 crore. The municipality also received a Rs.3 crore grant for the project from the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration. But the amount remains unused in view of the delay in implementation of the project. With the new schedule of rates, of the Public Works Department, being implemented there would not be any hurdles in taking up the project work, the official said. In the first phase, 22 of the 30 wards would be covered and a total of 7,000 house connections provided. Some of the areas to be covered in the phase include Thanickachalam Nagar, Madhavaram Main Bazaar, Thattankulam, Peria Sekkadu and K.K.R. Garden. In the absence of a proper drainage system, several colonies let their sewage into the Madhavaram lake now. An open flood water canal running along several areas of Madhavaram was being used by the local body to drain the sewage. The canal was linked to the Buckingham canal. Admitting that the sewage was being let out through the open canal, the official said this could not be avoided since there was no other option but to transport sewage generated by about one lakh population to the Buckingham canal. The underground drainage project, expected to take 18 months to complete, is to be executed with financial assistance under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Under the project, sewer pipeline over a distance of about 120 kms would be laid and the sewer network linked to Kodungaiyur sewage treatment plant.
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