Fresh bids invited for water treatment plant for Neyyar project
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The project envisages 100 mld to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation areas and 20 mld for 4 panchayats
Unable to seek out takers, the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has been compelled to ask bids afresh for setting up the water treatment plant (WTP) for the Neyyar water provide project, a 120 mld (million litres a day) initiative billed because the long-term answer to the water woes of the State capital.
The KWA had floated a brand new tender for the project in April this 12 months after cancelling the preliminary contract awarded to a Thiruvananthapuram-based agency after land disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the implementation.
Although the deadline was prolonged quite a few occasions since April, the ₹60-crore project had failed to draw bidders.
One purpose for the lukewarm curiosity might have been the choice to scale back the project implementation interval from the unique 18 months to 12 months, a senior KWA official stated. To make the project extra enticing, the KWA administration is more likely to enhance the time restrict to fifteen months. “A decision on it is expected soon,”’ the official stated.
Apart from a WTP outfitted with plate settler expertise (lamella clarifier), the contract additionally contains the development of a floating water-intake construction, raw-water pumping fundamental, a submerged centrifugal pump set, {an electrical} substation constructing and SCADA system. KWA plans to carry a pre-bid meet on July 14.
Designed instead consuming water supply for the capital metropolis, the Neyyar project guarantees 100 mld to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation areas. The remaining 20 mld will probably be divided amongst 4 panchayats within the district.
Meanwhile, the development of the water transmission fundamental – the second part of the Neyyar project which will probably be carried out as a separate work – has reportedly run into difficulties over its alignment. The KWA had deliberate to put the 1422 mm, delicate metal pipeline by reducing the highway. However, the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board which is funding this work prefers to have the alignment shifted to the facet of the highway. The transmission line will cowl a distance of 23.8 km from the project web site at Neyyar to the ground-level storage reservoir at PTP Nagar.
Although the KWA had awarded the contract for this pipeline work to an Erode-based agency, it was cancelled after the latter didn’t execute the settlement. Fresh tenders will probably be floated for the work as soon as a choice relating to the alignment is finalised, KWA officers stated.
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