mysuru a team of mysuru city corporation and mysuru urban development authority muda officials led by muda president h v rajeev on friday inspected the progress of the upgradation works undertaken by the karnataka urban water supply drainage board kuwsdb at the bidaragodu jackwell point near the citythis comes after muda decided to upgrade the bidaragodu jackwell point to supply 180mld million litres per day of water from the present 60mld to ensure adequate drinking water to several new layouts including private ones in the city the officials inspected the ongoing works at bidaragodu jackwell point they also visited kembalu udbur gate water distribution centres muda decided to upgrade the facility to ensure uninterrupted water supply to southwestern parts of mysuru city by drawing more water from kabini riverfom bidaragodu jackwell water will be pumped to kembalu pumping station where water will be chlorinated and pumped to udbur unit and supplied to mysuru city the entire upgradation project was taken up at a cost of rs 150 crore the project will help supply 180mld water to both mudaformed layouts and mudaapproved private layouts including rt nagar jp nagar university layout netaji subash chandra bose nagar and layouts along the ring roadspeaking to toi rajeev said the project will be implemented in a phased manner another three 1500 hp capacity motor will be installed to increase the pumping capacity the master balancing reservoir mbr will be increased to six from existing two at kalalawadi and dhanagalli new mbrs will come up at kuppaluru halalu hosahundi and bogadhithe 11 kv power station at udbur gate water supply plant will also be upgraded to 666 kv and another three power substation will be set up so that more quantity of water can be drawn from kabini river that flows close to bidaragodu the project will be completed very soon to ensure drinking water to new layouts of the city as per the plan he saidmcc commissioner g laxmikanthreddy muda commissioner d b natesh zp ceo b r purnima kuwsdb chief engineer siddanaika muda members lakshmidevi k madesh lingaiah were present