The installation of water supply line at Dakkhin Surma in Sylhet city began on Tuesday to bring the three wards of this area under drinking water facility coverage.
The Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, inaugurated the work in the morning at Daria Shah Shrine Road inhabited by around 1,50,000 people.Ariful Haque at the inaugural programme told reporters that priority-based development projects would be taken at Dakkhin Surma to provide its residents with all kinds of urban amenities.
‘It was unfortunate that installation of the water supply line in a populous area like Dakkhin Surma took more than one decade after inception of Sylhet City Corporation,’ he commented.
He said they were expecting to start supplying drinking water for the residents of the area in the beginning of January after completing the supply line installation by the time.
SCC chief engineer Nur Azizur Rahman, local ward councillor Roksana Begum Shahnaj, Taufiq Baks, Takbir Islam Pintu and Abdul Zalil Nazrul, among others, attended the programme.
Talking to New Age, SCC water section executive engineer Hanifur Rahman said a total of 36km water supply line would be installed at three wards of Dakkhin Surma involving a fund of Tk 18 crore under the Local Government Division’s ‘water supply, sanitation and drainage project for Sylhet and Barisal City’.
He said an undergoing project of installing a surface water treatment plant at Kushighat at Dakkhin Surma was about to be completed which would produce 2,80,000 liters of water per day.
‘Drinking water would be supplied to Dakkhin Surma from this treatment plant,’ the SCC official said.
-With New Age input
