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Rs. 250 cr. allocated for Godavari water project

Saturday, 25 July 2009 06:06 administrator
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The Hindu 25.07.2009

Rs. 250 cr. allocated for Godavari water project

HYDERABAD: Keeping the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in mind, the State government has taken enough care to allocate the much-needed funds for its projects to provide drinking water to the Twin Cities.

Finance Minister K. Rosaiah in the budget presented on Friday, announced that the Rs. 250 crore had been allocated for taking up the first phase of Maulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Sujala Sravanthi scheme to draw water from Godavari in three phases for Greater Hyderabad. In fact, the cost of phase – I of the project is Rs. 3,375 crore.

He also announced allocation of Rs. 37 crore to improve the quality of water supply in slum areas particularly the Twin Cities.

Mr. Rosaiah stated that a major initiative of the government was to make Hyderabad a World Class city.

Rapid urbanisation

Towards achieving this goal, it was expediting the construction of 158 km long Outer Ring Road as eight lane Access Controlled Expressway with an estimated cot of Rs. 4,607 crore.

He noted that the State was witnessing rapid urbanisation in the last two decades and the State government had taken proactive steps to access funds under the various flagship programmes of the Centre such as Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). He said special emphasis was being laid on water supply, sewerage, transport, integrated development of slums including housing infrastructure projects and solid waste management.

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 July 2009 06:09
 

Closure of dump yard brings relief

Saturday, 25 July 2009 05:59 administrator
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The Hindu 25.07.2009

Closure of dump yard brings relief

M. Srinivas

Dumping of garbage stopped following instructions from Chief Minister

Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Appalling: Fathullaguda dumping yard that posed health problems for residents of the surrounding colonies. —

HYDERABAD: Residents of Fathullaguda near L.B. Nagar can literally breathe easy now. For a change there won’t be the all-pervading stench that used to envelope the area on account of a garbage dump. From Friday, authorities have stopped dumping garbage at Fathullaguda following instructions from none other than Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

The garbage dumping facility had posed an insurmountable problem for the residents of the surrounding ten colonies including Jaipuri Colony, Indraprastha Colony, Shivshankara Colony and Ketana avenue, as heaps of garbage, foul smell, thick plumes of smoke, stray dogs and strewn decomposed carcasses were a common sight.

Every day, more than 200 trucks used to dump 400 tonnes of garbage generated in the surrounding Uppal, L.B. Nagar and Gaddi Annaram areas at Fathullaguda in a 44-acre government land.

Alarmed over the decreasing quality of life, the residents had petitioned the L.B. Nagar legislator D. Sudhir Reddy.

The positive development came during the recent visit of Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy to the area when the legislator convinced him to announce the shifting of garbage dump yard.

Spread of diseases

The garbage dump led to spread of diseases among residents, especially allergy and respiratory problems were on the rise because of the thick smoke enveloping the area throughout the day. The effect was so devastating that even the groundwater got polluted and had become unusable.

“We can now hope for better living conditions,” said a beaming B. Chakradhar Rao, Joint Secretary of Indraprastha Colony.

GHMC Additional Commissioner (Health and Sanitation) Aleem Basha said arrangements were being made to take the garbage to Jawaharnagar yard now.

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 July 2009 06:05
 

Submit lake plan in 2 weeks, says Lok Adalat

Friday, 24 July 2009 11:07 administrator
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Deccan Herald 24.07.2009

Submit lake plan in 2 weeks, says Lok Adalat
Bangalore, DH News Service:

Lok Adalat has directed the BBMP Commissioner to conduct a survey of the City lakes and submit a report including the blue print for the lakes within the BBMP limits, and initiate strict action against the contractors polluting the lakes.
 

Following a presentation on the lakes by the BBMP Commissioner, Justice K L Manjunath directed the BBMP to prepare and submit the general plan of 250 water bodies that come under its jurisdiction.

Commissioner said that the BBMP has prepared the master-plan for 21 lakes and will fence these lakes. He said that discussions are on with the corporate entities and organisations to adopt and maintain these lakes.

He was hauled up in connection with solid waste management after the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board submitted a report regarding the directions it had issued to the Palike on handling solid waste. Justice Manjunath asked the BBMP commissioner to visit all the sites in the outskirts of the City to see whether solid waste management was being implemented.

He also said that if it was not being implemented, the BBMP should terminate the dealings with that contractor and recover the losses from him. On the directions of the adalat to identify the lead industries in the City, Sharath Chandra said that there are 25 industries in the City. Among them four are recycling industries, 14 battery manufacturing units, one is battery terminal manufacturers and six lead oxide processors and manufacturers.

Regarding the abundance of plastic waste problem, theKPCB Chairman informed that they were looking at directing the plastic waste to cement factories, which could burn the waste as fuel.

 

 
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