Homes In Kings Colony Water-Clogged

GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain along with Charminar MLA Ahmed Pasha Quadri and GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar have inspected the Kings Colony situated at Miralam Lake at Rajendranagar Circle where houses were flooded with water, and people were unable to come out of the houses, causing inconvenience.

The incident occurred due to overflow of water in an adjoining minor irrigation tank.

Some of the residents and public representatives along with the Corporators and MLA have approached Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi at Darussalam, and represented their grievances to help them to remove the water on priority basis.

The GHMC Mayor and Commissioner directed the Engineer-in-Chief, Zonal Commissioner, (South), Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Circle - 6 to duly coordinate with the R&B and HMWS&SB officials, to clear the water by Saturday evening, and to report compliance.

The officials were further directed to personally monitor the situation as it was a very serious and emergency necessity.

The Commissioner also stated that he would be visiting the site again to inspect the rescue operations, and directed the officials to give information to him on an hourly basis.

He also informed that he would be speaking to higher officials of other departments, to take up the rescue operations on top priority.

Engineer-in-Chief R Dhan Singh, Engineer-in-Chief, Additional Commissioner (Planning) D Ronald Rose, Zonal Commissioner (South) N Ravi Kiran, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Circle-6) V Srinivas Goud,, Shivarampally Corporator Habeeb Zain and senior officials from the HMWS&SB and R&B also visited the areas. (INN)