Merger with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to quench 35 villages thirst HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) is drawing up plans to supply piped water to 35 gram panchayats, which were merged with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recently. Already, the water board has been supplying around 15 million gallons per day (MGD) to nearly 30 gram panchayats, but the panchayat raj department and the rural water supply (RWS) have been paying water bills on their behalf to the water board. "Several requests from 21 gram panchayats seeking water supply is pending with the board. According to the proposals, around 20 MGD of water will be required to meet their demand. Also, a few industries also sent their requisitions for supply of water, which could be around 37.16 MGD," a senior HMWS&SB official told TOI. The water board does not have distribution network to most of the gram panchayats. "We have pipelines to draw water from Singur, Manjeera and Krishna drinking water supply phase-I & II. If we have to supply to these gram panchayats, we will have to lay separate pipelines," he said. When contacted, HMWS&SB managing director J Shyamala Rao said: "We will extend water supply to the newly-merged gram panchayats soon. For this, we have to appoint a consultant to prepare detailed project reports (DPRs) for each gram panchayat. However, we have not received any communique from the municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department so far to prepare plans." "We will prepare the DPRs after commissioning the Godavari drinking water supply scheme (Maulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Srujala Sravanthi Scheme) and Krishna drinking water supply project phase-III. The Water Board is making all efforts to commission both the Godavari and Krishna phase-III schemes by April next. Before preparation of DPRs, the Water Board officials will inspect the gram panchayats to assess the situation. However, we will keep the DRPs ready and whenever the government asks us then we will submit them," the water board MD replied. The 35 gram panchayats were merged with the GHMC in the last two months. However, the corporation at its council meeting recently rejected the vetoed the merger move.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:39:16 +0000
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