Chief Secretary AP Padhi on Saturday reviewed the progress of the undergoing JICA projects in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar and directed the executing agency to complete the project by June 2019.
In the meeting it was decided that to complete four sewage zones in Cuttack and make it functional by December, 2018.
Besides, Padhi also asked the Housing and Urban Development Department to make aware people of the area, where the work is completed, to connect their septic tanks with the sewage channels.
He also directed the agency to strictly follow the time limit as per mentioned in the MoU.
From the review it was ascertain that by July 2018, 70 per cent of the work has been completed. In Cuttack, out of total 356 km sewage pipes 267 km’s work has been completed. While in Bhubaneswar out of 229 km sewage work 160 km’s has been completed.
In both cities, about 66 per cent of construction work of three wastewater treatment plants and five pump stations work has been completed and the problems of land acquisition and other problems have been solved.
Padhi also directed to make functional the Zone-1 and 2 by October Zone 3 and 6 by December and Zone-5 and 7 by March 2019 of Cuttack. It might be metioned here that the Zone-4 is functional.
Project Director Basant Parida said for discharging rain water Cuttack Tulasipur Pump House has started functioning. He also mentioned that about 99 per cent of the construction work of the pump houses in Police Colony, Bidyadharpur and others has been completed.