Pune: Rs 120 Crore Fund For Drainage Line Of Fursungi And Uruli Devachi To Transfer To Other Villages
Pune, 7th May 2023: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is implementing a sewage scheme worth Rs 352 crore for 11 newly incorporated villages in 2017. 100 per cent sewage of these villages will be collected and treated.
However, soon after the start of this work, the government decided to exclude the two villages of Fursungi and Uruli Devachi from the municipality, so the municipal corporation decided to cancel the sewage treatment project worth Rs 120 crores to be set up at Manjri for the sewage of these two villages. The said money will be used to lay out pipelines for the sewage project in the remaining nine villages.
The proposal in this regard has been placed for the approval of the Municipal Commissioner. Therefore, the sewage problem of nine villages will be solved soon. However, the impact of this decision will fall on the villages of Fursungi and Uruli Devachi. It is being discussed that this is the first administrative blow regarding development works and funding after the demand of the independent Municipal Council.
Vikram Kumar, Commissioner, PMC informed, “As the Municipal Corporation has decided to cancel the works in the two excluded villages, a proposal has been made regarding the funding of the scheme. However, no final decision has been taken regarding the said scheme and funding.”
The municipality will work in two phases to process the sewage of the newly incorporated villages. The work worth Rs 352 crore was approved in the first phase.
According to this, a treatment plant with a capacity of 12 MLD was to be set up at Keshavnagar and a treatment plant with a capacity of 93 MLD for the two villages Uruli Devachi and Fursungi at Manjri. These works are worth about Rs 150 crores while trunk lines were to be laid in these two villages along with the remaining villages from the remaining funds.
In the second phase, lights were to be installed in the nine villages. About Rs 150 crores of work was done for the same. However, due to the exclusion of these two villages, the municipality has decided to cancel the said works in these two villages. So, the administration will provide the funds for the second phase of sewage canals in the other nine villages.
As funds of Rs 120 crores will be available to nine villages included in the municipality, a 100 per cent collection of wastewater will be done in these villages. Also, the wastewater of these villages will be treated and released into the river in the wastewater center being constructed by the Municipal Corporation under the JICA scheme.
In the second phase, it would have taken five to six years for the work to be done, now, by excluding these two villages, funds will be available immediately, and the sewage problem of these villages will be solved in the next one to two years.
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