The BWSSB will pay the Bangalore Development Authority Rs9 crore for road restoration, as it will be laying pipes along 15 km.
Getting water to flow to city homes is expensive, and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), in a bid to overcome the many hurdles in implementing the ambitious Cauvery IV Stage II Phase work, has loosened purse strings. If all goes as planned, Cauvery IV Stage II Phase will be supplying water by the end of this year.
The BWSSB will pay the Bangalore Development Authority Rs9 crore for road restoration, as it will be laying pipes along 15 km. The Board will also have to shell out about `4 crore to the railways, Hindustan Machine Tools, and some private land owners for use of land.
“We need permission from various agencies, including the forest department, for our work. Inside the city, we have been working on laying pipelines of about 90 km. We are ready to pay for what land we use,” said BWSSB chairman PB Ramamurthy. Permissions are being acquired with urgency. The Board has been aiming at a December deadline for the completion of the Cauvery IV Stage II Phase project.
Engineers point to niggling problems in achieving the deadline in Banashankari 6th Phase, for instance, about 1.2 km of pipeline can only be laid with permission from the forest department, which is still to come.
Although the BDA has granted permission for laying the pipeline for a stretch of 15 km of the Ring Road from Marathahalli to KR Puram, the issue of how the BDA and the BWSSB can work simultaneously on about 5 km of this stretch is still to be resolved. BDA plans to build five flyovers to make this stretch signal-free; the BDA too aims at a December deadline, complicating matters.
The BWSSB has sought that the BBMP compensate it for the damage done to two pipelines on Miller’s Road, as BBMP contractors were at work there.
And lastly, here’s the bit that might bite — with cost of water supply rising, BWSSB chairman PB Ramamurthy asserts that there is a need to upwardly revise the water tariff, which has remained the same for a decade. A proposal in this regard is being readied for submission to the state government, Ramamurthy said.
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