Statesman news service
MALDA, 17 DEC: The English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) is hoping that the Central government will sanction funds for surface water treatment plant for this civic body from Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).The office bearers of the EBM, led by the Congress, Trinamul and the BJP, were upset after failing to implement the surface water treatment plant for supplying drinking water in the past two years. The Congress has two MPs from Malda but they did nothing to pursue the project. The EBM had prepared a project based on the confluence point of two rivers ~ Mahananda and Kalindri ~ two years ago but could not manage funds from the Central government. The estimated cost of the project was Rs 41 crore. Recently, the chairman of the EBM, Mr Narendranath Tiwari attended the Chintan Shibir of the Congress in Nadia and requested the Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, to sanction funds for a surface water treatment plant. The chairman of the EBM, Mr Tiwari said: “We have got the green signal from the concerned department a few days ago. The finance minister is now looking into the matter”.The chairman of the EBM admitted that without surface water treatment plant it would be difficult to supply drinking water to the people of English Bazaar, only depending upon the under ground water sources, throughout the year.“In many Wards, including added areas, we are not in position to supply water. The present pump houses do not have capacity to supply water to the increased population and extended areas. Many pump houses are old and not functioning properly”, he added.Recently, the South Malda MP has allotted funds to the tune of Rs 25 lakh to repair some defunct pump houses to continue supply of underground water in some areas where water crisis is a perennial problem in dry season.
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