The Hindu 20.08.2012
Malkajgiri water supply: GHMC to spend Rs. 3 cr.
The GHMC is ready to spend Rs.3 crore to lay pipelines beneath the
railway line nearby to ensure that adequate drinking water is supplied
to residents of Malkajgiri, said Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu on
Saturday.
He said that discussions would be held with the Water
Board and railway authorities to lay the distribution lines so that
water stored in the overhead reservoir built recently can be utilised.
Residents have complained that water was being supplied once a week and pleaded for a solution to their woes.
Pointing
out that the area was surrounded by railway lines on all sides, the
Commissioner said that the R&B Department had taken administrative
sanction to construct three road-over-bridges at Safilguda,
Vajpayeenagar and Anandbagh.
The GHMC is also ready to spend upto Rs.50 crore to take up any balance works to ease traffic congestion problem.
Mr.
Krishna Babu also promised to remove the hyacinth in the R.K. Puram
Lake and also directed local municipal authorities to prepare estimates
to beautify the water body as well as its surroundings.
The
Commissioner inaugurated an awareness campaign on vector borne diseases
and appealed to the residential welfare associations to get involved in
controlling the menace.
He advised citizens not to keep water
stagnant for over seven days, to clean all water storage containers
weekly once, to dispose all unused articles in store-rooms and godowns,
to cover overhead tanks, drums, sumps and other water receptacles, use
wire or nylon mesh to close septic tank vent pipes, to de-weed all
unwanted shrub growth, and check the terraces, roof gutters, sun shades,
cisterns for source reduction.
The entomology wing would go
visiting house-to-house to create awareness about the ill effects of
communicable diseases, and the role of cleanliness in curbing mosquito
menace, he said.
MLA Akula Rajender, North Zone Commissioner S. Hari Krishna, Deputy Commissioner P. Vishwanath were present.
- ‘Pipelines to be laid to utilise water stored in overhead reservoir built recently’
- Commissioner inaugurates awareness campaign on vector borne diseases
