Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Minister Amar Agrawal said here on Friday that a total of 500 RO water plants would be established in 169 urban bodies of the State at a cost of Rs20 crore.
Priority will be accorded to slum pockets for setting up the RO plants, he said while inaugurating a RO plant in the District Hospital here. Agrawal said that the State Government had begun the experiment of reaching pure drinking water to the rural population of the State in which villages such as Baima Nagoi and Tekari in Abhanpur was included.
After a survey was conducted in the villages of Baima Nagoi and Tekari, the conclusion was reached that RO water could solve the problem of diseases of the stomach, he said. The scheme after being extended, a RO plant was established in Koria district and now in Bilaspur, Agrawal said.
District Collector Siddharth Komal Singh Pardeshi said that RO plant is being established in five more locations of the city. Moreover, it may be recalled that Rs2100 crore proposal has been prepared for installation of 300 ‘Water ATMs’ in slum areas of urban bodies of Chhattisgarh. The ‘Water ATM’ will dispense five liters of purified water from RO plant on inserting rupee one coin in the machine, officials said.