Agra's potable water project to be complete by 2016

Special secretary (urban development) S.P.Singh informed that to enhance the capacity of the the water treatment plant II at Sikandra, a 144 mld plant was under construction.

"To send the 'bad water' from the treatment plant to Yamuna river, a 1,000 mm diameter and 1.8 km long pipeline is proposed, while work on the 1 km long drain pipe, whose alignment is parallel to the Kailash temple road will be completed by end of this month," Singh informed.

He said Rs.355.71 crore has been spent on the project so far.

The revised cost of the project, based on the surveys, investigations, designs and engineering are now estimated at Rs.2,887.92 crore, for which consent of the government of India has been procured.