Principal Secretary, Planning, Development and Monitoring Department, Dr. Pawan Kotwal reviewed the State/SDP plan of PHE & I&FC at the UT Secretariat on April 21. 

Dr. Pawan instructed the officials from PHE & I&FC to plan a good design purely based on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) for extraction of water, filtration, storage, and distribution. He further asked the officials to submit a DPR explaining water source, discharge data, and filtration and asked to involve DCs in preparing the DPR. He further asked to prepare a comprehensive plan incorporating the international norms so that it will work in winters as well. 

The component of the DPR should include source development, filtration infrastructure, and reservoir, he added. A project on Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) mode was also asked to prepare and directed the officials to keep 5 years for maintenance. 
 
The Secretary of the department was asked to examine the existing source, filtration capacity, treatment plant, storage overhead tank, and electromechanical component. He further directed to make use of technology purely based on (SCADA) systems at the water source.
 
Talking about filtration, Principal Secretary directed the concerned officials to consult the experts about the quality of water that is distributed to people. He added that as per the norms of potable drinking water it should be filtered and then distributed among the people. He added that the distribution network should be laid deep underground so that the pipelines do not get damaged in the winter due to frosting so that safe drinking water could be supplied 24X7 during the whole year.
 
Chief Engineer Hydraulics, Superintendent Engineer, Hydraulics, Kargil; Executive Engineer, PHE Leh/Kargil; Executive Engineer, I&FC Leh/Kargil, and DD Planning were present.