The Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority on Wednesday signed a contract under Karnaphuli Water Supply Project with two Chinese construction firms to build a new water supply plant at a cost of Tk 1510 crore.
The project includes intake facility and treatment plant, transmission and distribution pipelines reservoirs.
CWASA officials signed the contract with China National Technical Import and Export Corporation and Beijing Sound Environment Engineering Corporation at a city
hotel.
CWASA deputy managing director Syed Tawhidur Rahman, also the project director of Karnaphuli Water Supply Project, CNTIC vice-president Shan Wei and BSEEC general manager Wei Wei signed the contract.
Syed Tawhidur Rahman, at a briefing after the singing, told media that the new project would add 1360 lakh litres of water each day with the present supply.
He also said the project duration is 30 months and scheduled to be finished on December 15, 2013.
Syed Tawhidur Rahman informed the media that at present the daily demand for water was about 50 crore litres and CWASA could supply only 2.1 crore litres.
He also said the government had allotted Tk 504 crore, the Japan International Cooperation Agency gave Tk 991 crore and CWASA contributed Tk 15 crore for the implementation of the project at Pamra at Rangunia in the city.
Shan Wei and Wei Wei expressed their optimism to finish the project within the scheduled time.
source:New Age
