The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is executing the project at a cost of about Tk 27 crore.

The project is being funded by the government and the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) has been supervising the implementation work scheduled to be completed by June 2006.

Sources said implementation of the project started in 1996 and the first phase of the work was completed in June last at a cost of about Tk 20.54 crore.

Forty-six percent of the city dwellers are now getting 21,000 cubic meter of water daily.

Officials told BSS that there is a provision for purification of surface water through two water treatment plants under the second phase which will help reduce pressure on ground water.

Eighty percent of the city dwellers will get safe drinking water on completion of the second phase of the project.

For the city dwellers who will remain beyond the coverage of the second phase of the project, ten more deep tubewells will be installed for safe drinking water.

RCC Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu MP held a meeting with the project officials at his office here yesterday and asked them to complete the project on time.