To benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels Rural water supply schemes in the district have been expedited to benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels, and anganwadis considering the need to provide safe potable water to those locations. With summer setting in rapidly and the demand for drinking water especially in the parched regions of the district picking up, the schemes sanctioned previous year are being expedited. Proposals to provide safe drinking water under the scheme to 96 habitations at a cost of Rs. 3.72 crore have been forwarded to the State government for administrative sanction, according to Collector V. Shobana. Similarly plans have been forwarded to provide potable water supply to 27 schools at an estimated cost of Rs. 9.45 lakh, and also to four Adi Dravidar Welfare hostels at a cost of Rs. 6 lakh. Recharge shafts Besides them, water supply would be provided to 76 anganwadis at a cost of Rs. 15.20 lakh and two Adi Dravidar schools at an outlay of Rs. 3.35 lakh. It has also been planned to erect recharge shafts at a total cost of Rs. 15 lakh, Ms.Shobana observed. The proposals would take shape during the next financial year commencing Sunday, and once administrative sanction was accorded works would begin in right earnest. As for the works sanctioned during the last fiscal, efforts were underway to complete them expeditiously and bring them to public use during the summer itself, Ms. Shobana noted. Schemes Among them were the schemes to provide water supply to 12 habitations at a cost of Rs. 34 lakh, 49 schools costing Rs. 28.85 lakh and three Adi Dravidar welfare hostels at a cost of Rs. 4.50 lakh. Ms. Shobana said that 14 anganwadis would get water through a scheme costing Rs. 2.80 lakh while 32 check dams would be constructed at a total cost of Rs. 1.60 crore. As a special gesture, the two Sri Lankan refugee camps have been provided overhead storage facilities to store 30,000 litres of water. While the storage facility at Rayanur has been opened, that at Irumboothipatti is getting ready, she noted. Plans to provide potable water to 27 schools at an estimated cost of Rs. 9.45 lakh Two Sri Lankan refugee camps provided with overhead storage facilities