The Hindu 29.11.2010
Opposition parties raise doubts over drinking water project
Staff Reporter
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‘We’ll oppose any project which will put additional burden on people’ |
KAKINADA: Opposition parties are taking objection to the proposed
drinking water project to be taken up by the Municipal Corporation with
an outlay of Rs. 108 crore. The civic body, which has decided to launch
the project keeping in mind the future requirements of the city and
began working on it.
Voyants Solutions has prepared the detailed project report.
The objective of this project, being taken up with World Bank funds,
is to ensure that there should not be any shortage of drinking water in
the city in the next three decades.
Though the project has been approved formally by Special Officer of
the Municipal Corporation and district Joint Collector K. Sasidhar,
leaders of the Opposition parties are expressing doubts about the
viability of the project.
The Telugu Desam Party is seeing the project as an excuse to
introduce drinking water meters in the city. Party’s city unit president
Dusarlapudi Ramana Raju, who dashed a letter to all the officials
concerned, opposing the project, said on Sunday that there was no
clarity among the officials about the proposed project.
‘Data not provided’
“The officials are not providing the data required even to the
elected representatives. They should give all the details in the form of
a booklet and explain in detail to the public by convening Grama
Sabhas,” he said.
Expressing similar opinion, district president of the Bharatiya
Janata Party Y. Malakondaiah said their party would oppose any
development against the interest of the common man.
“It is not fair on the part of the officials to chalk out plans to
levy additional taxes on the public. The proposed project is against the
interests of the poor, as there is no provision of public taps in the
project report,” he said, adding that the people were already
overburdened with numerous taxes.
