HYDERABAD: With several hundreds of new colonies coming up on the outskirts of Hyderabad, especially in new municipal corporations, municipalities and villages located between the outer ring road (ORR) and the GHMC limits, the state cabinet on Tuesday allocated Rs 1,200 crore for augmenting water supply network to these new colonies.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will lay 2,000 km pipelines and construct nearly 100 small reservoirs for supplying drinking water to these colonies.
Official sources said the HMWS&SB had already completed works on the drinking water network at a cost of Rs 700 crore in phase I.
But, this network was confined to only village settlements outside the GHMC limits. “Every year, hundreds of new colonies are coming up as the Hyderabad metropolitan area development is expanding. If the new regional ring road (RRR) is developed, the city will further expand outside the present ORR also. Since water is a necessity, the government is focusing on providing drinking water network,” a senior official of municipal administration department said.
In phase II, seven municipal corporations such as Peerzadiguda, Jawaharnagar, Boduppal, Badangpet and Nizampet, 12 municipalities like Ghatkesar and 17 gram panchayats would be covered. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao directed the municipal authorities that there should not be water scarcity in the HMDA areas and every household should get 130 ML per day.
