Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday launched the ‘Sujal’ initiative for water supply management in Panchkula.

Launching this initiative as a pilot project for Panchkula from “Sant Kabir Kutir”, the CM said this unique initiative of the state government for water supply management will prove to be a benchmark in the field of water conservation.

“Sujal is a unique initiative which is environment friendly and due to which we can save resources along with a structured supply of water. You can also make financial savings,” he added.

Congratulating the people of Panchkula for this initiative, the CM said after being successful in Panchkula, this initiative will be implemented across the state. Khattar said a device will be installed in every drinking water meter, tube well and connection of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) which will have online cloud storage.
“With the help of this, the water supply will be monitored and the flow of water will 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 added.

The CM said with this technology it would be easy to measure the flow of water in every house and at every commercial site under HSVP.

“They (HSVP) will 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,” he added.

The chief administrator, HSVP, Ajit Balaji Joshi said with this initiative, it has become easy to track and close illegal connections, and with the help of this the authority will also be able to collect fine from the citizens.

This apart, the use of tertiary water in parks and green belts will increase from 14 minimal liquid discharge(MLD) to 30 MLD in a single year.

With the help of this device, 70 per cent labour will be saved, due to which about Rs 4.7 Crore will be saved in a year.

At present, Panchkula uses 162.5 million liters of water per day from different sources. With the use of this device, this figure will come down to 105 million liters per day in just one year.