CM dedicates/launches works for major water supply projects in central Gujarat

Bharuch

Gujarat Chief Minister today morning performed ground breaking for three drinking water supply projects in central Gujarat which are:

Rs. 82 crore Narmada Bara (improvement) Group Water Supply project covering 231 villages and 2 towns of Vagra, Amod and Jambusar talka of Bharuch district.

Rs. 64 crore Uttarbara (improvement) Group Water Supply project covering 93 villages and 2 towns of Jambusar and Amod taluka.

Rs. 26.11 crore Madhyabara(improvement) Group Water Supply project covering 107 villages.

Rs. 12.48 crore Jitnagar Sundarpura Group Water Supply project covering 29 villages of Nandod taluka of Narmada district.

Chief Minister announced that she will come back to inaugurate the three schemes for which groundbreaking was performed today.

She said, state budget for year 2015-16 has been passed just recently in the assembly but in just 15 days, all new projects announced in budget have been given administrative approvals. Rs. 1900 crore works are approved for Bharuch district.

Chief Minister dedicated Rs. 11.22 crore Gadkhol-Dadhal Group Water Supply project covering 18 villages. Under this project, water from river Tapi is supplied to a water body of GNFC. Daily 1 crore 70 lakh liter drinking water is stored, filtered and supplied to villages. Underground sump, filtration plant, pipeline network and over head tanks are some of the highlights of this project which has been developed in cooperation with private sector. The main intention of this project is supply of fluoride free water.

The Chief Minister also dedicated newly built Mamlatdar office of Bharuch, taluka seva sadan, Mamaltdar and Prant office building of Jhagadia taluka.

Chief Minister opened Tribal Welfare Cell of Bharuch district. It will serve 70,000 families of tribal talukas of Jhagadia, Valia and Netrang. A third party survey will take place with the help of 15 teams. The teams will facilitate form distribution, form filling for tribal schemes launched by the government. A toll free helpline 1800 233 2345 will help tribal people in this regard. There are 51 types of forms, 21 schemes for tribal, 30 other schemes across 9 departments. Online monitoring and call recording are other features of this set up.

Chief Minister also launched Land Losers Employment Monitoring Software covering 2700 land loser families and 200 industries. Land losers will be able to know the details of company that has been set up on their land and their employment status. Companies on the other end will be able to know the details of land losers they need to take care of. This set up will make the things speedy, simple, transparent and result oriented.

Chief Minister also launched toll free number for personal toilet requests.

She also presented water ATM cards to two women. With this card, a user can use water ATM and drink pure water spending token charge. The project has been activated under 100% public private partnership model. There are such 11 ATM installed at present in Bharuch.

– DeshGujarat