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Drinking water projects likely to get delayed

Tuesday, 28 January 2014 08:34 administrator
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The Hindu              28.01.2014 

Drinking water projects likely to get delayed

Special Correspondent

The Water Board is unlikely to keep the deadline of March for commissioning Krishna Phase III and Godavari drinking water projects. Both the projects are expected to be delayed by a few months since works are still in progress, while the Godavari water scheme is also dogged by litigation.

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy had asked the Board to adhere to the deadline of March for completing the projects while laying the foundation stone for Krishna Phase III in June.

Officials say they are doing their best to complete the projects but fear the work might get delayed.

The Board has laid pipeline to a distance of 50 km of the 110 km from Kodandapur to Sahebnagar for the Krishna phase III while construction of five reservoirs and three pump houses are in different stages of completion. The balance works are expected to be completed by April but still it would take few more months to commission the project, it is said.

In the case of Godavari project, pipeline has been laid to a distance of 154 km of the 186 km while construction of master balancing reservoir at Ghanpur poses a problem. Though the much delayed forest clearance has been obtained, litigation still holds up the reservoir work.

The Board has spent Rs.100 crore towards compensation for acquisition of 2,000 acres of land, including private land, for the Rs. 3,700 crore project.

“The works are expected to be completed by June or July,” a senior official said. The Board’s managing director J. Saymala Rao is holding a meeting on Tuesday to review the progress and look into the bottlenecks facing the projects.

Works still in progress for Krishna Phase III and Godavari drinking water projects.

 

GHMC to build walls around 385 open spaces

Tuesday, 28 January 2014 08:30 administrator
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The Hindu              28.01.2014 

GHMC to build walls around 385 open spaces

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Civic body to spend Rs. 49 cr. to protect lands

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has identified 385 open spaces which will be enclosed with compound walls at a cost of around Rs.49 crore to save them from possible encroachments.

Speaking to presspersons on Monday, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said three senior officials were entrusted with the task of identifying the open plots belonging to the civic body and the team had come up with the list with related sketches and locations.

“We will be protecting them by constructing compound walls which are estimated to run for 70,000 metres on the whole,” he said. By June, all these spaces would be developed into parks and plantation taken up during the coming monsoon to ensure that they do not fall prey to encroachers. The new lung spaces would join the list of another 1,000 new parks proposed to be taken up in the coming months.

On property tax collection, the Commissioner said this year, so far Rs.538 crore had been collected as against Rs.467 crore during the same period last year. “Our first target is Rs.1, 000 crore and second target is Rs.1, 250 crore and we hope the collection to pick up after all these holidays in January,” he said.

On realising arrears and long pending dues, he said the staff was directed to act upon but without causing harassment of any kind. Road repair works will commence soon as the civic body has approved Rs. 50 lakh for each ward. A meeting was scheduled towards the month-end with the Roads & Buildings (R&B) Department on handing over its road stretches to the GHMC. Mr. Somesh Kumar also conceded the need for preparing staff and officers better in handling grievances and said a training module on the issue would be worked out soon.

 

GVMC online payment restored

Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:46 administrator
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The Hindu              28.01.2014 

GVMC online payment restored

Online payment on GVMC websitewww.gvmc.gov.inhas been restored. It has been unavailable for the past few days owing to technical problems.

Property tax payment may also be made at the Saukaryam centre and “Mee Seva” centres and branches of IDBI Bank at Gajuwaka, Daba Gardens, Seethammadhara, Siripuram, SBH (Municipal Corporation and Asilmetta), ING Vysya Bank (Dwarakanagar, Ramnagar and Gajuwaka), ICICI (Dwarakanagar) and Axis Bank (Ramnagar).

 
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