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Shutdown: Second Bisalpur Pipeline Can Curb Total Shutdown Of Services: Phed | Jaipur News
Jaipur: Although workers and engineers of Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) have restored the leakages of Bisalpur main pipeline and resumed services at least 11 hours before the scheduled time, a section of engineers had claimed that such shutdown of Bisalpur services can only be stopped completely only if the government connect a second pipeline from Bisalpur to Jaipur.
“Such a plan is in place. The second Bisalpur pipeline would come up once the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) gets completed. We would start laying down the pipeline as soon as works for ERCP resumes in the state. The second pipeline can be used as a standby or can be used as an alternative on a rotational basis,” said a PHED engineer.
Officials said, the present pipeline had been laid down in 2009. Since then, this pipeline has been working round the clock and throughout the year without any break. If PHED engineers need to carry out any maintenance work of this pipeline, they have to stop the Bisalpur supply completely. Since Wednesday evening PHED engineers were compelled to shutdown Bisalpur supply till 3pm on Friday, after a leakage was spotted around 41km from Surajpura.
“It was indeed a blessing in disguise. We had earlier identified three major leakages on the main pipeline of Bisalpur and this was one of the three. We need to declare a planned shutdown to restore these leakages. However, when we got compelled to shutdown the service on Wednesday, we got time to restore all these three leakages during the shutdown period. Our workers and engineers worked relentlessly to restore the leakages as early as possible,” said a senior PHED engineer.
Around 4am on Friday PHED engineers and workers stopped the restoration work resumed transferring water from Surajpura to Balawala storage facility in Sanganer. From there, PHED started supplying water to different parts of the city.
“Since supply was restored well before the deadline the effect of the shutdown also got reduced considerably. Several areas of Jaipur started receiving water at households since afternoon and a few more had started receiving the evening supply on Friday itself. From Saturday morning services would be normal,” said a PHED official. On Friday morning PHED minister Mahesh Joshi was scheduled to visit at the effected spot. The minister cancelled the trip on early morning after news reached that workers and engineers had completed the job in the wee hours.
“Such a plan is in place. The second Bisalpur pipeline would come up once the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) gets completed. We would start laying down the pipeline as soon as works for ERCP resumes in the state. The second pipeline can be used as a standby or can be used as an alternative on a rotational basis,” said a PHED engineer.
Officials said, the present pipeline had been laid down in 2009. Since then, this pipeline has been working round the clock and throughout the year without any break. If PHED engineers need to carry out any maintenance work of this pipeline, they have to stop the Bisalpur supply completely. Since Wednesday evening PHED engineers were compelled to shutdown Bisalpur supply till 3pm on Friday, after a leakage was spotted around 41km from Surajpura.
“It was indeed a blessing in disguise. We had earlier identified three major leakages on the main pipeline of Bisalpur and this was one of the three. We need to declare a planned shutdown to restore these leakages. However, when we got compelled to shutdown the service on Wednesday, we got time to restore all these three leakages during the shutdown period. Our workers and engineers worked relentlessly to restore the leakages as early as possible,” said a senior PHED engineer.
Around 4am on Friday PHED engineers and workers stopped the restoration work resumed transferring water from Surajpura to Balawala storage facility in Sanganer. From there, PHED started supplying water to different parts of the city.
“Since supply was restored well before the deadline the effect of the shutdown also got reduced considerably. Several areas of Jaipur started receiving water at households since afternoon and a few more had started receiving the evening supply on Friday itself. From Saturday morning services would be normal,” said a PHED official. On Friday morning PHED minister Mahesh Joshi was scheduled to visit at the effected spot. The minister cancelled the trip on early morning after news reached that workers and engineers had completed the job in the wee hours.
