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Time of India
05-06-2025
- General
- Time of India
Water for 10k JSR residents by '26
1 2 3 Jamshedpur: Around 10,000 people, living in the eastern fringes of Jamshedpur, would receive piped water by 2026 end as work on the second phase of the Moharda drinking water supply project would begin soon, officials said on Thursday. In the second phase expected to incur a cost of Rs 7.77 cr, two overhead water storage tanks, with a capacity of 2.4 lakh litres and 1.25 lakh litres respectively, would be built at Bhuvaneshwari Temple in Telco and old GSR in Birsanagar. A nine-kilometre pipeline would supply water to the residential areas. Laying the foundation stone for the project at Sugana Colony in Baridih, Jamshedpur (East) MLA Purnima Sahu said, "The project would end the longstanding problem of water scarcity in colonies and slums." Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) deputy municipal commissioner Krishna Kumar said, "The colonies and slums in Bagunhatu, Baridih, and Birsanagar will receive piped water. New connections have been added after the service area was expanded." A total of 5,000 new tap connections were given and 3,700 illegal connections regularised between 2021 and 2023. Presently, over 15,000 houses receive water from the Moharda project. Over 2 lakh people will get tap water upon completion of the Rs 30 crore project being implemented Tata Steel Utility and Infrastructure Services Ltd.
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
BJP MLA leads Sindoor Yatra in JSR
1 2 Jamshedpur : Jamshedpur (East) BJP MLA Purnima Sahu on Sunday led the Sindoor Yatra in the city to salute the Indian Armed forces for their successful ' Operation Sindoor .' Party's women cadres participated in the rally which started from the transport ground in Agrico and culminated near Shahid sthal at police line in Golmuri following a 2-km march. Amid the blaring of patriotic songs and chanting of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and 'Bharat ki Sena Zindabad,' the women exuberantly walked the route carrying sindoor packets in their hands. The women applied vermilion on each other's forehead, expressing their heartfelt gratitude to the soldiers for eliminating the forces which were responsible for the Pahalgam shooting incident. The crowd carried a kalash (sacred pot) which contained sindoor contributed by the participating women. On reaching the shahid sthal, the kalash was placed at the platform with reverence. MLA Purnima Sahu said Sindoor Yatra was taken out to express profound gratitude to the Armed forces for protecting the sindoor of millions of women in the country. She added that the women force of the country is competent to pick up the arms to save the boundaries from the enemies whenever it is required.
