HYDERABAD: Thirtyone sewerage treatment plants (STPs) proposed along Hussainsagar lake catchment area and in north and south corners of Musi river will come up on litigation-free land, water bodies shore area land and government land of revenue department, GHMC and HMDA.
Officials are planning to complete the works and commission all the 31 STPs by October this year. Senior officials have taken special care while preparing the blueprints of the newly-proposed STPs, sources said, ruling out acquisition of defence land, railway land or other central government land.
Keeping in view of the previous experience of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) during land acquisition while constructing the STPs in the city, extra care was taken this time, sources said. The state government itself faced several hurdles and its proposed infrastructure projects could not take off owing to non-clearance of defence land from the Centre.
“Except in three to five places, we have enough land in remaining areas to set up the STPs,” HMWS&SB managing director M Dana Kishore told TOI.
