The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to set
up 150 reverse osmosis water plants in the city by involving self help
groups and slum level federations, Mayor M Majid Hussain has said.

Speaking
to newsmen after the face-to-face programme here on Saturday, the Mayor
along with GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar said that one slum in each
ward of the GHMC would set up the reverse osmosis water plant in the
next three months at a cost of Rs 5 crore.

Apart from providing
safe and pure portable drinking water to the slum dwellers through water
cans at affordable price, this would help in providing jobs to about
1,000 youths.

The door-to-door water cans would be supplied on two wheelers by the youth.

By
supplying packaged drinking water to the slum-dwellers, it would help 
check the spread of water-borne diseases more particularly among the
children who are prone to the diseases, the commissioner said.

When
asked about about blocking of roads in front of the police stations by
the seized vehicles, additional DCP (Traffic), S Satyanarayana admitted
that seized vehicles are parked due to lack of space in the police
stations. There is also constraint of space in the traffic police
stations.

Efforts are being made to identify open spaces in the
city to shift the seized vehicles and see that no seized vehicles are
found on the main roads, he added.

In view of the last week fire
accident at a timber depot in Musheerabad, the commissioner said that a
survey is being carried out to identify hazardous businesses like timber
depots, plastic units and others being carried out in the residential
localities. Wherever such hazardous businesses are found, the GHMC would
cancel the trade licenses of these units, he said.

As many as 38
complaints relating to town planning, drinking water problems and
traffic were received during the face-to-face programme.