Hyderabad To Get 2,700 Km Drinking Water Pipeline

The Telangana government agreed to undertake the laying of 2,700 km long pipelines for providing potable water to households in the jurisdiction of 12 municipalities.

GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy held a meeting with HMWSSB MD Dana Kishore and discussed the project. Drinking water would be provided to all the households under 12 Municipalities from the existing reservoirs Manjeera, Singur, Osman Sagar and Himayath Sagar, and construction of 56 other reservoirs would be undertaken to provide drinking water to all citizens under the GHMC's jurisdiction.

The GHMC and HMWSSB were planning to take up the works in coordination with the Traffic Police and other departments and would complete the project within stipulated time, duly involving executive agencies, residential welfare associations and public representatives, in a phased manner before the monsoon of 2017 to avoid problems.

For this purpose, the GHMC has borrowed a loan of Rs. 1,900 crores from the HUDCO.

The State government was planning to complete the project by May 2017, the GHMC Commissioner said.

The Commissioner promised that project would not cause much discomfort to commuters.