Technology and Infrastructure by Arun Lakhani

The Chairman & Managing Director of Vishvaraj Infrastructure Limited (VIL) Mr. Arun Lakhani says investing in expertise is just a stepping stones to developed and modern India. At Vishvaraj Infra (VIL India) we consider in creating value for every stakeholders by removing carefulessness. We consider ourselves as social entrepreneurs since Water, Waste Water and Transport; the sectors in which we have built our standing are closely interwoven with the lives of people. As business, apart from value creation for share holders they also impact happiness quotient of the people, thus offering enormous satisfaction to us for our life transforming work.

Here is what Mr. Arun Lakhani has to say the entire integrated water management project for Nagpur began with a simple idea that we want to have a continuous water supply sustaining Nagpur that means 24x7 water supply has to be provide to all the individual citizens. It was decided to improve the efficiency and bring in the new technology, a private sector expertise & to ensure that equitable water distribution this entire concept of 24x7 water supplies or continuous water supply was brought in.

24x7 water supple project was conceptualized to convert the terms of water supply to a round the clock one by fair distribution. The project kicked off with replacement of leaking pipes and house service connection. The target of Nagpur of 24x7 water supply project is to replace 600 kilometers of pipelines in the city and provide 3, 25,000 house service connections. It also aims to provide services like metering, billing, collection and customer service 3, 25,000 consumers. The project aims to undertake the operation and maintenance of water treatment plant to the capacity of 725 million liters per day. Decking up the 24x7 water supply project provided modern technology for treatment of water that in turn helped renovate the entire water network.

In addition to infrastructural and operational improvement technology was also introduced for monitoring and controlling the water flow. The use of SCADA system or supervisory control and data acquisition to monitor the entire urban water distribution system at one place made monitoring of the treatment plants extremely quick.

See Nagpur city is increasing and it is growing like anything. For a growing city most professional way of management is required for all the sectors. We have put GIS system, SCADA system lot of modern technological system which we can monitor the total city by sitting at a single point.

If on one hand modern technology made it easy to monitor Orange City Water it also helped the company become more accessible to the citizens. Orange City Water now has a dedicated call center to address customer grievances. The option of online billing has made transactions more convenient for customers. Orange City Waters is also to launch its mobile application in the near future.