MP govt okays Rs 227.80 cr for Kaketo-Peshari-Tighara pipeline

Madhya Pradesh Cabinet has sanctioned Rs 227.80 crore to lay a pipeline from Kaketo-Pehsari dams upto Tighara dam in order to meet the drinking water requirement of Gwalior city for the next 50 years. 

"Administrative sanction of Rs 227.80 crore was accorded by the cabinet to meet the cost of this ambitious project. The Water Resources Department had initally drawn up the proposal in this regard", an official release said. 

The Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan last night has accorded its sanction to the project on the condition that legal permission is obtained from the Supreme Court apart from the State's Forest Department and Environment and Union Forest Ministry before launching work on the project. 

Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Department will implement this project which will be completed in the next years, it said, adding that the aforesaid alternative arrangement has been proposed as the existing arrangements are not adequate to meet the drinking water supply needs of Gwalior city. 

It was being felt that the Tighara dam can no longer cater to the drinking water requirements of Gwalior city for the next 50 years, and, therefore, this alternative was suggested. 

Under the project, drinking water is proposed to be supplied from the Tighara dam. Water would be supplied through gravity flow without pumping it and there will be no consumption of electricity. 

The power failure will not affect the water supply in anyway. Moreover, there would be least requirement of land acquistion for the project as most of the construction work is proposed to be carried out underground.