No Shortage Of Drinking Water In Telangana: Government

Sandeep Kumar Sultania, Principal Secretary of the Department of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, today said that measures were being taken in a planned manner to ensure that there was no shortage of drinking water supply to the people of Telangana.

Sultania, along with Vikarabad District Collector C Narayana Reddy and Additional Collector Rahul Sharma, and senior officials of Mission Bhagiratha, inspected a pumphouse which provides drinking water from the Kagna river, near Tandur town in Vikarabad district.

Speaking to the media on the occasion, he said that due to the drought conditions prevailing in Telangana, the State government was giving top priority to the supply of drinking water, and officials were closely monitoring the situation at the field level.

"We are taking all possible precautions to prevent a drinking water shortage from arising. The authorities are working as per the plans, and are ensuring alternative supplies on a war footing if there is a water crisis anywhere," he said.

Sultania said that the repairs of hand pumps, bore motors and pipe lines would be taken up in time to restore water supply, and that all the available water resources were being fully utilized to meet the demand.

He also said that water was being supplied through tankers wherever required, and also that orders had been given to the officials of the animal husbandry department to arrange water for cattle in the villages in view of summer.