Water grid works gain momenturm

The state government is focusing on early completion of pipe-laying works and providing drinking water to the identified habitations in time under Mission Bhagiratha. 

Senior TRS leaders have reiterated that they will not ask for votes in the next elections without providing drinking water.

Pipe- laying works is going on at a brisk pace at various places despite rains and farmers are raising crops in the fields through which pipelines will pass at some places.

The early completion of water grid works and providing drinking water to every household has assumed importance in the wake news that TRS party may go for mid –elections.  

The state government has instructed the officials concerned to complete the pipe- laying work and supply drinking water to 169 habitations in Luxettipet, Kerameri, Laxamanchanda and Nirmal mandals under the first phase of Mission Bagiratha in district by August30.

Minister for forest and environment Jogu Ramanna laid the foundation stone to overhead tank (OHR) being constructed at a cost of 1. 57 crores at Devapur crossroads- to supply drinking water to 250 habitations in Adilabad Assembly constituency.

The minister said 1,42,399 people would get drinking water in the constituency, with this reaching all habitations by December2017, that is one year before the 2019 elections.

According to official sources, Mission Bhagiratha works taken up at a cost of Rs 1,778 crore to provide drinking water to 1,170 habitations in Nirmal, Adilabad and Boath Assembly constituencies lifting the water from SRSP under the scheme.  

The state government has postponed by a month the launch of the water supply for every household under scheme due to delay completion of works. It had actually given deadline of July 30 for launching supply of drinking water to the houses under mission Bhagiratha.  

Pipe- laying work is still in progress and the Rural Water Supply (RWS) will install taps in the habitations after completion of water grid pipe laying work. Construction work on Kadem intake well alone has been completed so far, and Yellampalli, Komurambheem, Nirmal yet to be completed.

RWS officials are planning to visit the Gajwel in Medak, represented by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to see the model drinking water supply scheme there and replicate it in Adilabad.

The higher officials asked the district officials to take steps to supply drinking water to total 116 habitations instead 66 in Kerameri mandal under the first phase.