Desalination project hits land hurdle - Real Estate India

??|?? July 8, 2013 ?? 02:32pm ??|Contributed by manoja

VISAKHAPATNAM: The delay in allotment of land by the state government is posing a hurdle to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation?s (GVMC) proposed desalination project.

GVMC requires about 20 acres to launch the project at an estimated cost of Rs 80 crore. The corporation, through the project, aims to generate 10 million litres of water per day.

A few months ago, the state government had agreed to allot land along the Bay of Bengal to the corporation. Based on this assurance, the corporation swung into action and entrusted the task of pre-feasibility study to the Andhra Pradesh Industrial and Technical Consultancy (APITCO), which submitted its report two months ago.

However, the corporation is yet to receive a nod from the state government and is thus reluctant to move further and prepare the detailed project report (DPR) for the much-hyped project.

?We received the work order of feasibility study on desalination project from GVMC six months ago. After conducting the study at Singapore, Dubai and even in Chennai in the country, we submitted the report to GVMC two months ago. In that report, we have mentioned that Vizag is viable for the desalination project,? APITCO project associate K Lakshminarayana told TOI.

?Though APITCO submitted the report to us, we are not able to prepare the DPR because the government has not as yet allotted the required land. We will prepare the DPR and go ahead with the project soon after getting the land. We hope that the government will give us the land fast,? GVMC chief engineer B Jayaram Reddy told TOI. GVMC will first build a 10 MLD plant and then go for a 100 MLD plant, he said.

However, official sources revealed that the government is waiting for the clearance of the GVMC merger with its neighbouring Anakapalle and Bheemili municipalities before taking any decision on land allotment for the desalination project.

?GVMC proposed the desalination plant at Bheemili, which is not under its jurisdiction. If the merger takes place, GVMC does not need to depend on the government for the land as it will have the right to the required land in Bheemili, which has vast coastal land along the sea feasible for desalination projects,? a senior GVMC officer informed.

Senior TDP leader K Thatha Rao said that government is once again proving its inability by delaying land allotment to a useful project in the rapidly growing city. ?The city needs such projects to meet the huge gap between demand and supply of water,? Rao said.

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