Centre grants Rs 3,100 crore to extend Jal Jeevan Mission through Veligonda project
People in about 1,300 villages will get potable water in two phases of JJM. Deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan will lay foundation to the prestigious scheme in Markapuram constituency on Friday.
The rural water supply (RWS) wing has already completed an intake well near Gottipadiya village with a cost of Rs 73 crore. The water from intake well would be shifted to a pump house coming up in an extent of 12 acres. The pump house and pipeline work would be completed with a cost of Rs 1,290 crore.
This pump house and tank will help supply protected drinking water to about 1,300 villages. The RWS department would also construct separate drinking water supply pipelines to all the villages and household taps will be fitted under JJM.
Taking the drinking water crisis in upland area of Prakasam district into serious consideration, Pawan Kalyan has requested the Centre to include drinking water project to be taken up as part of Veligonda project under JJM.
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The Centre has responded positively and agreed to take up the project in two separate spells. The Centre has in principle agreed to release Rs 1,290 crore in the first phase and Rs 1,850 crore in the second phase.
The state govt has designed the mega drinking water scheme in three separate phases for early execution. The govt wanted to cover three assembly constituencies in the first spell and cover four constituencies in other two spells. "We will complete the works related to Jal Jeevan Mission in Markapuram and Kanigiri in the first phase. Besides, six villages of Marripudi mandal of Kondepi constituency and all mandals of Kandukur constituency of Nellore district will also be taken up in the first phase," commissioner panchayat raj and rural development, Krishna Teja Mylavarapu told TOI.
He explained that the govt would take up works in Giddalur constituency in second phase and Yerragondapalem and Darsi constituencies in third phase.
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