RO Plant inaugurated at Payyanur Municipality premises to make avail pure drinking water during scorching summer

An RO Plant was inaugurated at Payyanur Municipality premises to make avail pure drinking water during scorching summer.  Shri.C. Krishnan MLA, inaugurated the RO Plant on 25 May 2019. Shri. S. Harikishore IAS, Executive Director, Kudumbashree Mission was the chief guest of the function.The RO plant opened at Payyanur Municipality office premises is located near to Payyanur bus stand. A four member team comprising of Smt. Divya.P, Smt. Leena K.V, Smt. Praseeda K and Smt. Nanda Surendran is entrusted with the charge of running the RO plant and supply the drinking water cans.

The bottled drinking water is named as ‘Sheethalam’. Kudumbashree had launched the idea of launching a Reverse Osmosis Plant to produce bottled drinking water, as part of the National Urban Livelihoods Mission Project being implemented in Kerala.  

Kudumbashree is implementing the project with the help of New Delhi based Dharna Infrastructure Private Limited. The public need to give a nominal charge of just Rs 30 for 20 litres of pure drinking water. The plant has the capacity to purify 500 litres of water per hour. The water is purified using reverse osmosis technology to treat the filtered water. The water will be then purified through ultraviolet treatment and the purity of the water is ensured. Rs. 12,75,000 is the total project cost out of which Rs 6,37,500 lakhs was the share of  Urban Local Body (ULB) and the rest of the project cost  (Rs 6,37,500) was funded through the loan availed by Kudumbashree members. 

Water Vending Machine, which would enable the consumer to avail 1 litre of water at a rate of Rs 1 would be open soon. It is also planned to extend the activities of the RO plant and to extend the same to the next phase. The demand for purified drinking water can be better converted into an enterprise opportunity and the Mission intends to open more such plants  across the state. 'Sheethalam’, purified drinking water, distributed to the people of Payyanur in reasonable prices during this time of water scarcity is really being a boon to many.