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| CAG pulls up JK Admin over faulty installation of domestic water meters in Jammu | | Rs 1.98 crore wasted, in 6-years mere 47 % target achieved | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 13: The water metering project in Jammu has turned into a flop show with over whooping Rs 1.98 crores rendered unutilized and unproductive.
The CAG report has maintained that against a target of 15,000 households and 1,500 locations, installation and removal of domestic water meters and ultrasonic flow meters was done at only 7,107 households 47 per cent and 817 locations 54 percent, resulting in incomplete study besides non achievement of objective of preparing a comprehensive NRW reduction plan consequently rendering expenditure of Rs 1.98 crore as unproductive.
As per the CAG report, in order to assess the quantum of NRW and develop a comprehensive NRW reduction plan for a pilot zone With 30,000 households of 20 identified District Metered Areas (DMAs), the executing agency (JKERA), without any DPR, awarded in January 2015 the work for installation and removal of domestic water meters and ultrasonic flow meters to a contractor at a negotiated amount of Rs 4.60 crore.
The assessment and analysis of water losses was to be done on the basis of data gathered by obtaining readings from domestic water meters and ultrasonic flow meters installed at the identified locations and the work was to be completed within 12 months April 2016.
As per the contract agreement, the contractor had to procure eight portable ultrasonic flow meters and 1,800 dry dial inferential type multi jet domestic water meters at a total cost of Rs 64.50 lakh Ultrasonic flow meters at the rate of Rs 4, 80,000 and Domestic water meters at the rate of Rs 1,450 and assess the extent of water losses by way of installation and removal of domestic water meters in targeted 15,000 households and ultrasonic flow meters at targeted 1,500 locations.
The work was not completed in full by the contractor even after extending in December 2016 the period of contract. The contract was finally fore-closed July 2016 and shown as completed in December 2016 after incurring an expenditure of Rs 1.98 crore.
As per the note submitted in January 2018 by the Project Manager Hydraulic, JKERA, the contract was foreclosed on the grounds that there was no further scope of work. Against a target of 15,000 households and 1,500 locations, installation and removal of domestic water meters and ultrasonic flow meters was done at only 7,107 households 47 per cent and 817 locations 54 per cent, resulting in incomplete study besides non achievement of objective of preparing a comprehensive NRW reduction plan consequently rendering expenditure of Rs 1.98 crore as unproductive.
Documents reveal that study of NRW reduction was not conducted in 20 DMAs of Jammu city and the programme was implemented in identified 4 DMAs under subject package due to time constraints and availability of ADB funding. However, neither was the quantum of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) assessed in the identified DMAs nor were any steps taken to develop a comprehensive NRW reduction plan. |
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