To check water wastage, 'Sujal' initiative launched

Chandigarh, June 13

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the water supply management initiative ‘Sujal’ at Sant Kabir Kutir in Chandigarh on Monday.

Khattar, while launching the pilot project for Panchkula, said ‘Sujal’ was a environment-friendly initiative due to which we could save the resource, along with structured supply of water.

The CM said that a device would be installed in every drinking water meter, tubewell and connection of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) which would have online cloud storage. With the help of this, the water supply will be monitored and the flow of water would also be controlled. With this innovation, officers can sit in their office and watch the flow of waste water, stop it and save water.

He said with this technology, it would be easy to measure the flow of water to every house and at every commercial site under the HSVP. They would also know which connections and meters are inactive so that they can be turned off. All this information will be made available on a single dashboard so that all the concerned officials can keep an eye on the process.

If successful in Panchkula, then the initiative will be launched across the state.