AHMEDABAD: The municipal corporation has found that underneath a commercial plot in Chandkheda it has put up for sale, runs a main Narmada trunk line. Since no construction can take place on the plot in TP Scheme No. 76/B even if sold, the civic body has decided to move the line at a cost of Rs 5.29 crore. A proposal for the project was approved at the meeting of AMC‘s water and sewage committee held on Monday.
An AMC official not wanting to be named said, “We are correcting Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority’s mistake. The authority, had in 2003-03, laid the main trunk line in Chandkheda on Gujarat Housing Board land. Later, it created TP Scheme No. 76/B and reserved a commercial plot on the same land.”
AMC’s separate plan to extend Narmada drinking water supply to Chandkheda, Motera, Ranip and Sabarmati areas involved laying a 2,500mm diameter main supply line from the Jaspur treatment plant to KD Hospital via Vaishnodevi Crossroads and connecting it to the 1,600mm diameter main trunk line in Chandkheda.
It was under this process that AMC noticed that the trunk line runs beneath the commercial plot it has put on the market.
The official said that from the Rs 94.72 crore allocated for the Jaspur-KD Hospital line, AMC had saved Rs 3.39 crore. This saving and an additional fund will now go into shifting the line, he said.
