Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced an allocation of over Rs. 2,200 crore for drinking water, road facilities and street lights in the city.
The allocation includes funds for two new desalination plants. One will come up in Nemmeli (where a plant already exists) with a capacity of 150 million litres per day (mld) and another in Pattipulam with a capacity of 200 mld, which could be increased to 400 mld in the future. Both these plants will be on the East Coast Road.
Chennai Metrowater is already preparing a detailed project report for the plant in Pattipulam, which will be only a few kilometres away from the facility in Nemmeli.
Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, the Chief Minister said the plant in Nemmeli would cost Rs. 1,000 crore and would come up on a 10.5 acre plot of vacant land, near the existing desalination plant.
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