GUWAHATI: The Guwahati Jal Board announced a new set of areas that will be connected with the JICA-assisted Guwahati Water Supply and has urged residents, institutions, housing societies, and apartments to apply for the new water supply connection.
The new areas that have been earmarked to be supplied with the new JICA-funded and Guwahati Metropolitan Drinking Water and Sewerage Board-executed water supply project are:
• Bhaskar Nagar/Geetanagar
• Ambikagiri Nagar/Jonali
• Mother Teresa Road
• Zoo Road
• Narikalbari
Only online applications will be accepted via the GMDWSB website, https://gmdwsb.in, and the Guwahati Jal Board mobile app.
The other areas which were earmarked to be supplied with the JICA-assisted water supply under the first phase of the implementation of the project are:
• Amiya Nagar I
• Amiya Nagar II
• Chandmari
• Rudra Nagar
• Piyoli Phukan Nagar
• Holy Child School approach
• Milanpur
• Govt Press Road
• MRD Road from Bamunimaidan to Chandmari Police station
• Red Cross Road
• Rajgarh Road
• Pub-Sarania Area.
Only the residents of the earmarked areas will be eligible for consumer registration in the first phase of the implementation of the project. The available Area and Sub-Area have to be selected and the accurate GPS location of the consumer’s property has to be pinned on an online map where the earmarked areas for the JICA water supply will be highlighted. Only consumers with properties in the highlighted area will be eligible for application.
In the online application, prospective applicants will select the category of their property as Domestic or Non-Domestic. Domestic consumers would be households, central, state- or privately-owned apartments or premises for domestic purposes like cooking, washing, drinking, gardening, cleaning, toilets, etc.
The non-Domestic category will include govt consumers, institutions, commercial consumers, industrial consumers, and consumers using water facilities in hospitals. The online application form requires the applicant’s identity, contact and property details, and relevant documents confirming the same.