Public Health Engineering and Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap on Sunday visited the water filtration plant in front of Government Tamaskar Science College.
The officers concerned, while informing the Minister about the progress of drinking water augmentation project phase-II of Durg city, said that about 100-km pipeline has to be laid in the city and 60 per cent work has been completed.
The officers told the Minister that five water tanks have to be constructed under this project. Out of them construction of one tank was completed and 50 per cent work of the remaining four tanks has been completed.
On being asked about the time limit, the officers told the ministers that water supply from this project would be regulated by summer season of 2014, with which Baghera, Urla, Potia, Katulbod, Karmacharinagar, Sikolabhatta and Jawaharnagar in Durg would get sufficient water supply.
The Minister inspected the hostel-cum-science development centre situated at Civil lines and said that this 500-seat hostel-cum-science development centre was his dream project. He said that Durg and Bhilai are education hubs and the hostel was constructed with an objective to provide all the best arrangements to the children of tribal areas.
While instructing the officers concerned to complete the hostel construction by August 20, the Minister told the officers to that the hostel should be started from this session and it was planned to dedicate it in this month.