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IIT KGP develops supply of potable water project

The IIT Kharagpur has developed a community supported supply of purified drinking water project at Porapara in West Midnapore district of West Bengal.
Dr Somnath Ghosal of the Rural Development Centre of IIT Kharagpur has installed a fully-automated multi-filtered UV treated drinking water facility which can provide close to 1000 litres of purified drinking water to 60 families every day at Rs one per family, an IIT KGP statement said Monday.
While the land was freely provided by a villager, IIT KGP build the infrastructure and funded the entire project.
The villagers are getting purified drinking water through water ATM vending machines using water cards from the facility launched about ten days ago, it said.
The entire operation of the unit, its upkeep and daily management, are being done by the villagers who have formed three committees to manage the operations.