Hengbung water supply scheme
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 23 2014:
Hengbung Water Supply Scheme, which has been constructed at a cost of Rs 422.76 lakh, has begun supplying drinking water to the people of the area from yesterday.
Kangpokpi PHE Division Executive Engineer Ningombam Gambhir said that construction of the water supply scheme commenced on February 21, 2011 .
With the completion of its construction on November 22, 2014, the scheme has started supplying drinking water to the villagers of Hengbung, Mayangkhang, Mayangkhang Ningthoupham, Mayangkhang Khuman and Hengbung Nepali villages, he added.
Saying that Taphouvati stream in Kangpokpi is the water source of the scheme, Ningombam Gambhir said that the said scheme has been handed over to Village Waters and Sanitation Committee Chairman S Hangshing.
He urged the villagers to pay taxes to the committee regularly.
Saying that villagers must take the scheme as their own asset, Gambhir urged them not to let water from the scheme go to waste.