July 2006-The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Review stand on water supply to outskirts, BWSSB told

The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Review stand on water supply to outskirts, BWSSB told: "

Is the State Government keen on water privatisation in the city's suburbs? It seems so if the Government's recent direction to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) asking it to reconsider its proposal to run the Greater Bangalore Water Supply and Sanitation Project (GBWASP) is anything to go by.BWSSB is executing the project at a cost of Rs. 802 crore in six City Municipal Councils (CMCs) and one Town Municipal Council (TMC) around Bangalore. Work on the water supply component taken up at a cost of Rs 410 crore is under progress and is likely to be completed by January 2007.The former BWSSB Chairman Ashok Kumar Manoli had written to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in February that it could run the Greater Bangalore project at costs much less than those quoted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group that is financing the project. It is learnt that the department has asked BWSSB Chairman N.C. Muniyappa to reconsider this proposal.

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