The Hindu              30.11.2013 

Water Board warns defaulters

Special Correspondent

HMWSSB Managing Director J. Syamala Rao has directed the officials to ensure that Red Notices are not only issued to the defaulters, but to ensure that the water supply connections are disconnected. If any water supply connection is reopened illegally, a case would be filed against the defaulter immediately, he added.

The Hindu              30.11.2013 

Stop digging roads till further orders, says Mayor

Staff Reporter

Mayor B.S. Sathyanarayana on Friday ordered Internet service (IS) and telecommunication service (TS) providers to stop digging up roads and other places to lay the optical fibre cables (OFC) till further instructions are issued.

His decision came soon after a committee headed by N.R. Ramesh, in its interim report, stated that OFC service providers have laid nearly 65,000 km of ducts although BBMP’s permission had been sought for only 6,500 km. The committee alleged that several leading telecom and Internet service providers had laid cables without authorisation resulting in losses running into crores of rupees to the civic body. Mr. Ramesh demanded that the issue be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).