Kochi: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has assured that the process setting up the Rs 238-cr water treatment plant in Kochi catering to needs of water supply to Cheranellur, Thrikkakkara, Eloor and Kalamasserry municipality would be escalated.
Replying to a calling attention Hibi Eden in the state assembly on the subject on Wednesday Pinarayi said the government would convene a meeting of the officials concerned to speed up the project.
Pinarayi said Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has identified the land needed for the project in Karumalur Village and technical examination of the same has been in progress.
Efforts are also to find land owned by HMT for setting up the plant, he said.
The project has been in the limbo for the past one year due to failure of the KWA to find six-acres of land for setting up the treatment plant. The KWA plans to set up the plant at the land belonging to HMT failed as the land identified for the purpose has been caught in a dispute over surplus land case, Pinarayi said.
The effort to acquire land from KINFRA also fell through due to legal wrangle.
The project, approved by the UDF government, proposes to set up 180 MLD capacity plant using water from Periyar River in and around Kalamasserry region. Eden said that the project will be beneficial to a large number of people in Cheranellur, Tripunithura and West Kochi besides Thrikkakkara and Eloor.
