GUWAHATI: The long-impending Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) assisted Guwahati Water Supply Project will finally see the light of the day in January.
Officials mentioned that partial commissioning of the project will take place towards the end of next month.
Talking to G Plus, managing director of Guwahati Smart City Limited Sidharth Singh informed, “We are trying to get partial commissioning of the project done by the end of January. After the partial commissioning work, we will keep on adding more houses as the work progresses.”
He added that additional houses will keep getting water connections as the pipeline laying work of the project progresses.
In the initial phase, approximately 2,000 houses will be benefitted around the Pan Bazar and Fancy Bazar areas of the city.
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JICA is assisting a water supply project in the Northern Guwahati region as well as in South Central Guwahati, the project was initiated to ensure uninterrupted 24X7 water supply to the respective regions of the city.
The Northern Guwahati Water Supply Project is slated to provide 38 million litres per day (MLD) of water to North Guwahati, once completed.
As per the authorities, the project consists of four major parts of construction. These include, building the intake wells in the Brahmaputra River, construction of the water treatment plant, building of the reservoirs and finally the outlet network.
Read the detailed story in the latest edition of our weekly tabloid on 22nd December.
