Thiruvananthapuram Corporation sanctions ₹124.35 crore for sewerage line extension
The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has sanctioned ₹124.35 crore as part of works for extension of sewerage line in the capital, especially to the coastal areas. The sewerage line extension work will cover a total of 42.7 kilometres through Muttathara, Beemapally, Beemapally East, Manikyavilakom, Chakka, Pettah, Perunthanni and Kadakampally wards.
The civic body had earlier sanctioned ₹91 crore for a 26.8-kilometre sewerage line connecting Attukal and Ambalathara wards as well as ₹66.5 crore for another line connecting the Attukal and Kalady wards. According to the Corporation's estimates, as many as 7,338 families will benefit when the sewerage line extension works are completed.
Tertiary treatment
For setting up a tertiary treatment plant for improving the quality of the treated water from the sewage treatment plants for reusing it for gardening and construction purposes, the Corporation has sanctioned ₹15 crore. The civic body has also sanctioned ₹36 crore for the setting up of an omni processor to treat the sludge from the sewage treatment plants and to convert it into useful energy. Mayor Arya Rajendran said in a statement that with the projects becoming a reality, there will be a quantum jump in the sewerage connectivity in the city, benefiting a large number of people.
The Corporation is also set to implement a project to install compact sewage treatment plants at Rajaji Nagar in the Thampanoor ward as part of measures to curb the flow of untreated sewage into the Amayizhanjan canal. The proposed plants will have a total capacity of 500 kilolitres per day (KLD) and will be built at an estimated cost of ₹7.02 crore.
Plant at medical college
As per the City Water Balance Plan, which collected data on sewage and septage connections in 2023 to assess gaps, out of the 101.48 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage that the city generates only 56 MLD gets treated in the treatment plant at Muttathara. In addition, a treatment plant with a capacity to treat 5 MLD waste became operational on the Government Medical College campus in 2021. It takes care of mainly the waste generated on the large campus.
Several wards of the city are still unconnected to the sewerage network. The Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation's Budget in 2023 had made a commitment to expand the sewerage network, which is now limited to 43 wards, to all the 100 wards within the next seven years.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Hindu
a day ago
- The Hindu
Tiruchi Corporation to establish a college, says K. N. Nehru
Minister for Municipal Administration K.N. Nehru on Wednesday said Tiruchi Corporation would establish a college on a five-acre land in the city. Inaugurating new Corporation school buildings here, the Minister also disclosed that a model school would be established at Woraiyur in the city and urged Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi to establish government schools in the west constituency as there were only Corporation and private schools in the area. Later, Mr. Nehru told reporters that the integrated bus terminus at Panjapur would become operational after the tender for the annual maintenance contract was awarded. Asked about COVID-19 preparedness at schools, Mr. Poyyamozhi said the current strain of the virus was not severe. School students would be advised to wear face masks if necessary. The Ministers inaugurated a model higher secondary school at Edamalaipattipudur in Ward 57 and an additional building for Corporation Middle School at Piratiyur in Ward 55. The model school building has been constructed on a 2.91-acre site in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar at an estimate of ₹18.41 crore. The ground floor and first floor of the building will house 36 classrooms, two staff rooms, two office rooms, a library, three laboratories, and four sanitary facilities. Similarly, the Corporation Middle School at Piratiyur, which is functioning in a two-storey building with 10 classrooms, has 801 students. Considering the increase in enrolments, an additional building was constructed at an outlay of ₹4.90 crore under the Corporation's Education Fund. The three-storey building features 12 classrooms, two staff rooms, an office room, eight toilets and 12 urinals. With the additional building, around 540 would be benefitted, a press release said. Textbooks, school bags and uniforms were distributed to the students. Collector M. Pradeep Kumar, Mayor M. Anbazhagan, Corporation Commissioner V. Saravanan, Member of the Parliament K.N. Arun Nehru, Chief Educational Officer G. Krishnapriya and others were present.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- The Hindu
A scatological past of toilets of Madras
Grand edifices, stories of leaders and rulers, old ruins are all very well. But, what about the history of everyday services? Public transport, water supply, electricity, drainage and above all, what are known as 'public conveniences' so that people don't commit 'public nuisance'? The above, particularly the last named, has been a topic that I frequently ponder over. And about sources of information, there are very few. All of this came to me when representatives of the NGO WASHlab (Water Sanitation And Hygiene) met me. Through June and early July, they are planning to conduct a toilet festival in Chennai city and wanted me to lead a walk in connection with it. I realise I am up against a wall (oh God, I did not mean it that way) but have anyway decided to take up the challenge. And so, on June 14, at 6 a.m., I will be doing a walk titled 'The S***t History of Madras'. I don't know if I can do justice to the topic but let us see what emerges (no, no pun intended). For centuries, we did our business in the open and Madras was no different. What is amazing is that the British and other colonials did nothing to rectify the situation; they merely adjusted to the existing practice of manual scavenging and found nothing objectionable in it. It was only in the second half of the 19th century that the issue of providing public toilets was even addressed. And the progress was not rapid after that. It is from 1867 that we find the Corporation of Madras embarking on campaigns for residents to install toilets in houses and also ponder over facilities for the public. A model latrine was put up on the north bank of the River Cooum at Pudupet as a first. Thereafter, 160 latrines were constructed within a few years. Households were encouraged to install dry toilets, from where nightsoil, stored in covered pails provided by the Corporation was cleared by scavengers every morning and deposited in carts from where they were taken to a vast Night Soil Depot in Korukkupet. Other collection points were at Otteri and Saidapet. After some processing, the accumulated waste was sold as garden manure! With flushable toilets becoming possible early in the 20th century, households were encouraged to install them and the Corporation even extended loans to facilitate this. Many refused, claiming that was what scavengers were for anyway. But, matters progressed. There was a mistaken notion in the Corporation that with private toilets coming up, the public equivalents could be brought down in number. By 1942, there were only 33 of them for a population of 7 lakhs! In the meanwhile, conveniently overlooking the falling number of public toilets and the poor maintenance of the remaining, the Corporation and the police embarked on prosecuting those who committed public nuisance. But this was given up in 1954 as the numbers far exceeded the available police vans! However, even in the 1940s, some sane voices like those of Commissioner JPL Shenoy were heard. The Corporation began constructing public toilets which in 1967 reached 403 in number and ten years later, there were 476 of them. Even today, there are just around 1,500 of these facilities, in a city of our size. And I wonder how many of these are accessible by women. Much of what I have quoted above comes from an excellent tract on conservancy that Shobha Menon of Nizhal NGO fame, wrote for the Madras Gazetteer brought by S. Muthiah and published by the Association of British Scholars. (V. Sriram is a writer and historian)
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Ludhiana: Fully vaccinated among COVID +ve patients, say officials
Most of the people found infected with COVID-19 in Ludhiana so far were fully vaccinated, with even the person who died of the infection last week having received a third shot, according to the local health officials. 'Most of the patients who have been found positive were vaccinated. In fact, the person who died last Wednesday had received three shots of the COVID-19 vaccination,' confirmed a senior health official on the condition of anonymity. However, There was no record on their history of having contracted the infection during the earlier waves. Ludhiana district so far makes the most of the cases reported in the state. At present there a nine active cases in the state and eight of these are here only. A man suffering from a co-morbid lung ailment died on Wednesday while he admitted to a Chandigarh hospital for treatment. He had shown serious symptoms on 23rd May and died on 28th May. Of the eight active cases, seven are confirmed to have been vaccinated. One of the latest cases include a 69-year-old lady, who is admitted to Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh. She, according to district epidemiologist Dr Sheetal Narang, was suffering from typhoid for last five months and had been visiting PGIMER Chandigarh regularly for last one month, which is where she could have contracted the infection. Her vaccination status was not confirmed. A family member of the patient, an 18-year-old boy was also found COVID positive, but he is asymptomatic and was also vaccinated. A 35-year-old OPD patient, who is three months pregnant and complained of having fever for last two days, also tested positive at the Civil Hospital on Monday. Dr Narang, however, said that she didn't have fever anymore and was asymptomatic. She was also vaccinated. Vaccine 'highly efficient': Docs State nodal officer for COVID-19 Dr Rajesh Bhaskar said that the vaccine was only 90-95% efficient and, in a few cases, even those with proper vaccination may end up contracting the virus. The efficacy of the vaccine, according to him, also depended on the level of antibodies present in the body which depend on how long back the person was vaccinated their history of infection. He noted that people in the vulnerable group, those above 60 and suffering from co-morbidities can voluntarily go for another short of vaccination if it has been over two-three years since their last short of the vaccine. For the rest he assured the vaccine was highly efficient despite the 5% of outliers. It is pertinent here to mention that of the five active cases in the district two are asymptomatic and the rest also only mildly symptomatic. Dr Rajesh Bhaskar said that the situation is very normal as of now and there was no reason to worry about and that any advisory wasn't required yet. No spike in testing reported Meanwhile, hospitals across the city have reported no spike in testing. Senior Medical Officer (SMO), Civil Hospital, Dr Harpreet Singh, said that the number of tests at the RT-PCR lab was no more than 18-20 daily. Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), two of the city's biggest hospitals, also reported no spike in testing so far.
