Connect All Areas to the Sewer Network: Mantar Gowda

Kushalnagar, Sep. 2: Sewerage connections are being provided to residential and commercial buildings under the jurisdiction of Kushalnagar Municipality and the owners of residential and commercial buildings should immediately connect to the sewer network, said Madikeri MLA Dr. Mantar Gowda. Speaking after chairing a progress review meeting of the sewer project at the Kushalnagar Municipality Hall and discussing the work with the officials concerned, he said that the connection has to be obtained through the Kushalnagar Sewer Board, and for this, the specified connection fee has to be paid to the Kushalnagar Municipality and a no-objection certificate has to be obtained. He said that the residents of the municipality should join hands for the success of the project and make good use of the project.

The commercial and residential connection fee for the sewer project was fixed at one time and the maintenance fee was fixed at an annual rate. After discussing it in the meeting, it was decided in the meeting that only the connection fee should be paid immediately. He said that the rest of the annual maintenance fee will be allowed to be paid in the next financial year.

The connection fee has been fixed in two grades for Kalyan Mantapa hotels and lodges, and a separate amount has been fixed for all other small entrepreneurs and household use. The connection fee for residential connections of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will be borne by the special fund of the municipality.

The officials informed the meeting that this is not applicable if the building is rented. The officials informed the meeting that the people have been informed to pay the connection fee for the last three months, but so far the fee has been paid for only 30 connections.

The MLA said that the officials need to work on informing the citizens about this by organizing ward meetings in the respective wards.

There was a long discussion in the meeting about the fact that there are about 6,500 connections in the municipality and people are not responding.

Then, on the direction of the MLA, representatives of the Kushalnagar Chamber of Commerce were invited to the meeting and the issue was raised.

The connection fee and maintenance fee are expensive and the Chamber of Commerce President K S Nagesh and representatives who attended the meeting presented their views on this matter and proposed a concession.

The municipality has to pay Rs 1.57 crore to the Sewerage Board for the work and an annual maintenance cost of Rs 2 crore has to be borne, Chief Officer T S Girish told the meeting. After paying the connection fee, the building owners will have to bear the cost of the work of connecting the sewer pipes from their buildings, Prasanna Kumar, Assistant Executive Engineer of the Sewerage Board, told the meeting. He said that steps will be taken to carry out the connection work through contractors licensed by the board.

Engineer Jayakumar, Executive Director of the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board, who was present at the meeting, said that a total of 76 kilometers of sewerage network has been installed in the former town panchayat limits of Kushalnagar, Mullusoge village and partially Gummana Kolli villages. Two wet wells have been constructed and the work of installing a 4.5 million liter capacity sewage treatment plant from the wet wells has been completed. He said that about 35 blocks of the town and Kushalnagar Rath Street up to Harangi Junction, on the main road from Ganapati Temple to Koppa Gate and some other works have been completed.

The public in the town limits only discharge waste water from their toilets, bathrooms and kitchens into the town's sewerage system. In this regard, the work of installing pipes from toilets, bathrooms and kitchens, constructing junction chambers and connecting them through the common chamber through the main chamber installed through the common chamber is yet to be done.

The officials said that the sewerage connection work will be done only through the approved plumbers of the municipality.

The government had planned a sewerage project for Kushalnagar town in 2012 at an estimated cost of Rs 43 crore and the work started in 2014. The work has been lagging for the last 12 years. In this context, the opinion was expressed in the meeting that the citizens of the town have lost faith in the project and the MLA gave strict instructions to the officials to immediately complete the sewerage project of Kushalnagar town and dedicate it to the public.

On this occasion, the officials informed the meeting about the work of the 24x7 drinking water supply project being undertaken in Kushalnagar.

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Guarantee Implementation Committee, VP Shashidhar, Chairman of the Kushalnagar Planning Authority, Pramod Muthappa, Municipal Administrative Officer Nitin Chikki, Executive Engineer of the Sewerage Project, Engineer Jayakumar, and Municipal Chief Officer, T.S. Girish, Executive Engineer of the District Collector's Office Srinivas, Assistant Engineer of the Sewerage Board Abhishek, Kushalnagar Municipality Health Officer Udayakumar, and Engineer Arbus Ahmed were present.

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