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Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Temjen Imna Along, inaugurating Nagaland’s first smart drinking water facility, a ‘water ATM’, in Kohima College on Saturday. (EM Images)[/caption]
Kohima, July 28 (EMN): The minister for Higher and Technical Education, Temjen Imna Along, has inaugurated Nagaland’s first smart drinking water facility, a ‘water ATM’, in Kohima College on Saturday. The ‘water ATM’ will provide clean drinking water at affordable price.
The smart cards or inbuilt coin-based ‘water vending system’ will be provided to students to avail the facility. The purified water will cost a nominal charge of INR 10 to buy 20 litres of Reverse Osmosis, or RO, water and 0.3 litres for INR 1.
The minister said in his speech that “any smart initiatives that can build our people is an added bonus, not only for the students and faculties but also the people around.”
Observing that the quality of water in the college was not up to the mark, he felt the need to provide clean drinking water to the students at affordable prices, for which he took initiative for the project in collaboration with ZSEE Smart Water Solution. He hoped that the students and the locality would benefit from it.
Inato Shohe, general manager of ZSEE Smart Water Solutions, said it was the first smart water project in the state. “The management has decided to provide clean drinking water using Ultra Filtration and RO technology, dispensing through water ATM, to the first two colleges in Kohima College and Dimapur Government College as a pilot project,” he said.