Work to lay pipelines to provide regular piped water supply to households in Vettavalam and Pudupalayam towns in Tiruvannamalai district commenced on Tuesday.
Accompanied by Tiruvallur Collector B. Murugesh, Minister for Highways and PWD E.V. Velu laid the foundation stone for the project, which is executed under AMRUT-2, the second phase of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) programme. “The new piped water supply will be provided to households in the added areas in these town panchayats. The work will be completed by mid-2024,” R. Manimaran, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), Directorate of Town Panchayats (Tiruvannamalai), said.
The Pudupalayam town panchayat in Chengam taluk has 1,131 household water connections, covering its 12 wards under the Sathanur Combined Water Supply Scheme. A total of 0.716 million litres per day (MLD) of water has been provided under the scheme for residents for many years. Due to the addition of areas a few years ago, the population of the town has now become 13,094 people. As a result, an additional 1,000 household connections required a piped water supply. The new water supply scheme under AMRUT-2 will provide water to the additional households in the town at an average of 70 litres per capita per day (LPCD) for each individual. As per the estimate, three open wells (18 metres deep each), two overhead tanks (two lakh litres each), and one sump (one lakh litres capacity) will be built at a cost of ₹10.88 crore.
