Chennai to get two more desalination plants
Posted on: 17/Apr/2013 2:24:50 PM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said that the Government has set aside Rs. 2,200 crores to provide roads, street lights and drinking water to Chennai’s city and suburbs. She also announced that two more desalination plants will come up soon. One will be at Pattuipulam with a capacity of 200 MLD (million litres per day) and the other at Nemmeli which will provide 15 MLD.
Making a statement in the Assembly, Ms. Jayalalithaa said, ‘tThe plant at Nemmeli would cost Rs. 1,000 crore and would come up on the 10.50-acre vacant extent of land near the existing desalination plant… This plant will take care of the drinking water requirements of the extended areas of South Chennai. A total of 6.46 lakh people in Alandur, Perungudi, Kottivakkam, Puzhuthivakkam, Pallikaranai, Madipakkam, Shozhinganallur, Karapakkam, Neelankarai, Injambakkam, Chemmenchery, Uthandi and Okkiyam-Thuraipakkam will benefit from the scheme.
The desalination plant in Pattipulam would be completed in a span of four years.’
