NMC plans Rs 450-crore water projects to meet demand during Kumbh Mela
Nashik Municipal Corporation
(NMC) plans to undertake Rs 450-crore water projects to meet the additional 250 MLD demand during the 2026-2028 Simhastha Kumbh Mela, ensuring sufficient supply for the city during the mega gathering to be held in Nashik city between 2026 and 2028.
The projects include increasing the capacity of the pumping station at the Mukane dam, constructing another new water treatment plant (WTP) at Vilholi and laying new water distribution pipelines from Vilholi WTP to Sadhugram and Nilgiri water filtration plant. NMC commissioner Manisha Khatri said they were planning to undertake the Rs 450-crore water supply projects immediately, considering less than two years were left for the Kumbh Mela.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis during the Kumbh Mela meeting last month had given his approval to undertake water projects to meet the water requirement during the religious gathering in Nashik.
At present, the daily water requirement for the entire Nashik city is over 550 million litres per day (MLD). During the Kumbh Mela, the daily water requirement will increase. Apart from Gangapur dam, Nashik city sources water from the Mukane reservoir. NMC lifts water from the jackwell of Gangapur dam at full capacity, but there is still scope to lift more water from the jackwell in the Mukane dam.
"The water lifting capacity of our jackwell in Mukane dam is 411 MLD, but we are lifting only 137 MLD of water from it now. We can lift 274 MLD more water, but we need to work on the existing infrastructure for the purpose," an NMC official said.
At present, NMC has a water pumping station with a capacity of 137 MLD and a water treatment plant with the same capacity at the Mukane dam. "NMC has decided to build a new water pumping station at Mukane dam with a capacity of 274 MLD and a new water treatment plant near Vilholi on the outskirts of the city of 274 MLD. The city will get an additional 274 MLD of water from Mukane dam, and total lifting from the Mukane dam will increase from the present 137 MLD to 411 MLD," the official said.
NMC also plans to lay a 13-km long water distribution pipeline from Vilholi to Sadhugram, where sadhus will stay during the Kumbh Mela. "Around 10 lakh sadhus are expected to visit Nashik during Kumbh Mela. Hence, we will have to develop Sadhugram on 1,000 acres to accommodate sadhus. We will require around 150 MLD of water for Sadhugram alone during the Kumbh Mela and an additional 100 MLD of water for the city. Hence, the new pumping station and new water treatment plant will help meet the water requirement of the city not only for the upcoming Kumbh Mela but also for the next 15 years," another civic official said.
The civic officials said they already sent the proposal to state govt, and to the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) for technical sanction. "We expect to get the approvals in the second or third week of May. The tender process for the works will be floated by May-end," a senior civic official said.
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