CM takes stock of water supply improvement in Malviya Nagar

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday took stock of a water supply improvement project in South Delhi. Kejriwal who is also the Chairman of Delhi JalBoard visited the Malviya Nagar Water Services(MNWS) to take a review of the project.

Kejriwal was briefed by the officials of the DJB and MNWS on the facility and the work they do, according to an official statement the project was started in 2013 on a pilot basis to improve the efficiency of water network under Malviya Nagar underground reservoir (UGR) command area. The command area has five Assembly constituencies under it, viz., Malviya Nagar, Greater Kailash, Ambedkar Nagar, Chhatarpur and Mehrauli.

The total number of metered connection in the area was reported to be 43,087 and the area was divided under 9-District Metering Areas (DMAs).

The Chief Minister was briefed that the project has benefitted the area by hugely increasing the coverage, no complaints of contamination, increase in revenue, huge number of house service connections achieved, water saved by detecting leakages and the system was better monitored, the statement said.

The Chief Minister also visited the scientific monitoring system, SCADA —Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, of the centre from where it controls everything. The centre monitors flow, level, pressure, water quality, residual chlorine, conductivity and turbidity through the system.

CM was told that the system was equipped with alarm enunciator to keep the parameters within limits.