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TMC Water Supply Department Bags Waterworks Association Award
TMC's water supply department receives national recognition for its water supply projects, and is the third, after the civic electrical department and the municipal public works department, to have done so.
The water supply department of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has recently got national recognition for its writing on the water supply projects it has undertaken so far. The department is the third one after the civic Electrical Department (ED) and the municipal Public Works Department (PWD) to do so.
The civic administration got the pleasant news from Jaipur on Monday. It so happened that a high level meeting of delegates from state and central and local self government bodies on water supply from across the country was going on in the capital of Rajasthan under the banner of All India Waterworks Association (AIWA).
The delegates had presented detailed papers on various water supply schemes carried out by their organisations in the past some years. The TMC had also presented its papers on the subject. KD Lala, the City Engineer had written the papers on the subject but the City Engineer was not present in the meeting.
The TMC paper included details of the 110 Million Litres per Day (MLD) water supply project it completed and commissioned in August last year. The project costing around Rs 97 crore was funded by the state and central governments to the extent of 40 percent under the central government Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The pumping stations and filtration plants are engineering marvels. The facilities were designed in such a way that there was no loss of waters in the process of water supply. The entire system of water supply under the project was put on GPS system and monitored from the control room installed in the civic headquarters.
Besides the project the City Engineer had also written several papers on the previously concluded 100 MLD project undertaken in 2002. The system of distribution of the city into water districts based on the system of Elevated Storage Reservoirs (ESRs) to ensure equitable water supply was also included in the paper written on the subject.
The paper also described the steps taken by the corporation to overcome the distribution of waters and the water planning for the next decades to come. Steps like water auditing and centralized control of water supply through the installation of bulk meters and its connection to the centralised control room were detailed out in the paper. The delegates held the civic papers as the best from amongst those presented in the meeting.
The TMC representative present in the meeting was given a trophy and a merit certificate in recognition of the honours to the corporation from the AIWA. The trophy and the certificate is on display in the civic headquarters from Wednesday.
Earlier the civic ED had also got national and international honours for its papers on the highly publicized solar based air conditioning project. The civic PWD also got the national award for Excellence in Multi Modal Transport for its presentation on the highly publicized Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS).
The Paper On The City Water Project
The TMC paper included details of the 110 Million Litres per Day (MLD) water supply project it completed and commissioned in August last year.
The project costing around Rs 97 crore was funded by the state and central governments to the extent of 40 percent under the central government Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The facilities were designed in such a way that there was no loss of waters in the process of water supply. The paper also described the steps taken by the corporation to overcome the distribution of waters and the water planning for the next decades to come.
The civic administration got the pleasant news from Jaipur on Monday. It so happened that a high level meeting of delegates from state and central and local self government bodies on water supply from across the country was going on in the capital of Rajasthan under the banner of All India Waterworks Association (AIWA).
The delegates had presented detailed papers on various water supply schemes carried out by their organisations in the past some years. The TMC had also presented its papers on the subject. KD Lala, the City Engineer had written the papers on the subject but the City Engineer was not present in the meeting.
The TMC paper included details of the 110 Million Litres per Day (MLD) water supply project it completed and commissioned in August last year. The project costing around Rs 97 crore was funded by the state and central governments to the extent of 40 percent under the central government Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The pumping stations and filtration plants are engineering marvels. The facilities were designed in such a way that there was no loss of waters in the process of water supply. The entire system of water supply under the project was put on GPS system and monitored from the control room installed in the civic headquarters.
Besides the project the City Engineer had also written several papers on the previously concluded 100 MLD project undertaken in 2002. The system of distribution of the city into water districts based on the system of Elevated Storage Reservoirs (ESRs) to ensure equitable water supply was also included in the paper written on the subject.
The paper also described the steps taken by the corporation to overcome the distribution of waters and the water planning for the next decades to come. Steps like water auditing and centralized control of water supply through the installation of bulk meters and its connection to the centralised control room were detailed out in the paper. The delegates held the civic papers as the best from amongst those presented in the meeting.
The TMC representative present in the meeting was given a trophy and a merit certificate in recognition of the honours to the corporation from the AIWA. The trophy and the certificate is on display in the civic headquarters from Wednesday.
Earlier the civic ED had also got national and international honours for its papers on the highly publicized solar based air conditioning project. The civic PWD also got the national award for Excellence in Multi Modal Transport for its presentation on the highly publicized Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS).
The Paper On The City Water Project
The TMC paper included details of the 110 Million Litres per Day (MLD) water supply project it completed and commissioned in August last year.
The project costing around Rs 97 crore was funded by the state and central governments to the extent of 40 percent under the central government Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The facilities were designed in such a way that there was no loss of waters in the process of water supply. The paper also described the steps taken by the corporation to overcome the distribution of waters and the water planning for the next decades to come.
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