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Drinking Water Supply Projects – Offer Excellent Opportunities for Investment in Rajasthan

Feb 20

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The Rajasthan state is poorly placed in terms of availability of water resources. It has only 1.16% of surface water and 1.70% of the ground water of the country. Average rainfall is 531 mm against national average of 1200 mm. Gross annual draft of ground water in the state is 13 BCM against recharge of 10.4 BCM.

Opportunities for Investors

Due to the water scarcity, Rajasthan is severely affected with drinking water supply problems.  So to resolve this problem, Rajasthan Government has taken up execution of major drinking water supply projects in a big way and there lies excellent opportunities for investment in this sector.

The major drinking water supply projects, as proposed for private investment, are basically of two configurations:

Transmission

The transmission system intends to carry water from the raw water source to different pumping stations.

Cluster Distribution

The cluster distribution system projects involves taking off water from existing transmission systems and conveying it to different villages/habitations in the project area.

Major Water Supply Projects in Rajasthan

A number of major water supply projects have been identified for implementation under public private partnership model.

  1. Mansiwakal Water Supply Project for Udaipur
  2. Bisalpur Jaipur Water Supply Project
  3. Fluoride Control Project for Bhinay-Masooda
  4. Jawai-Pali Pipeline Project
  5. Barmer Lift Canal Water Supply Project
  6. Bisalpur Dudu Phulera Project
  7. Madhopur -Baler Water Supply Project
  8. Churu-Jhunjhunu Water Supply Project Phase-II (Aapni Yojana)
  9. Sarwar-Nasirabad Pipeline Project

Government Initiatives

Rajasthan has demanded special status in terms of drinking water supply while pointing out that the desert State needs Rs.50,000 crore for supply of clean and safe potable water to the remote areas, including Rs.20,000 crore for projects presently under way.

The Rajasthan Government’s Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) has installed over 10,700 new hand-pumps and bore-wells in the State’s urban as well as rural areas this past January under a contingency plan for supply of drinking water.

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Bisalpur-Jaipur Pure Drinking Water Supply Project – Historic Moment for all Jaipurites

Mar 3

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Bisalpur-Jaipur Pure Drinking Water Suppy Project

Bisalpur-Jaipur Pure Drinking Water Suppy Project

There has been lot of construction work going on roads in pink city these days. Many foreign tourists have wandered about whats the mess about. Actually the foundation of this present construction was laid way back.

In December 1999, ie almost 10 years ago, the foundation stone for the Bisalpur-Jaipur Water Supply Project (BWSP) was laid.

After a long wait, finally on Sunday, March 01’09, the Chief Minister, Shri Ashok Gehlot opened the valves at Malyviya Nagar water store. The water came swiftly from Bisalpur and will be now distributed across the city. With the inauguration of this project, Jaipur has become the second largest city in India, that will be supplied pure drinking water from outside.

Bisalpur Project – A Blessing for Jaipurities

Bilaspur Water project, that solves the drinking water problem of jaipur, is now about to complete and will take 3-4 more days for proper supply. The project will supply water from the existing Bisalpur dam and reservoir (located on the Banas river, about 106 kilometres south west of Jaipur city) up to Balawala, from where potable water will be supplied through supply systems in Jaipur and nearby rural areas.

The project aims at supplying potable water to nearly 53 lakh people in major settlement areas of the city till 2021. In the initial phase, water will be supplied to Malviya Nagar and Mansarovar. Durgapura area will also get water from March onwards.

Role of PHED in Bisalpur-Jaipur project

Public health and engineering department(PHED) has charted out time bound programme to connect the whole city with Bisalpur water supply. The project is being completed in two phases — transmission and transfer. The transmission part being financed by Asian Development Bank, while transfer is supported by the Japan International Corporation agency

According to experts, the operation and maintenance cost of supplying the water to the city will be around Rs200 crore per year.

Currently, the PHED incurs around Rs90 crore for water supply, while getting a paltry amount of Rs20 crore as revenue from consumers. Almost 97% of city population depends on ground water resources for potable water supply. Consequently, the water table throughout the city area has been depleting drastically over the past three decades at an alarming rate.

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