Coimbatore Corporation draws plan for areas excluded from UGSS

The proposal will bring over 33,000 houses under the scheme

Even as it goes about completing the construction of sewage treatment plant in Nanjundapuram and laying pipeline to convey sewage to the Ondipudur treatment plant, the Coimbatore Corporation is also drawing a plan to implement underground sewerage scheme (UGSS) in areas excluded within the old city.

Sources said the Corporation that had implemented the UGSS about a decade ago under the then Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission had omitted a few areas for various reasons. One of the reasons was that the areas were underdeveloped with very few houses. This was in the old city area, which is now spread over 60 wards and called the core city.

But in the last 10 years and since the implementation of the UGSS, those areas had developed and were without underground drainage. With a view to implement UGSS in those areas the Corporation had drawn up a proposal, said sources familiar with the issue.