HYDERABAD: Uppal Kalan is on its way to becoming the first municipality in the State to be covered entirely with an underground sewerage network.

Barring a few colonies in Ramanthapur, works on the underground sewerage network and subsequent to the relaying of dug up roads is complete in Habsiguda, Uppal and most of Ramanthapur.

The project, taken up at a cost of Rs.32 crores, is expected to permanently solve the problem of inadequate sewerage system in the municipality. In the first phase of the project in 2003, officials took up the Habsiguda region for revamping the sewerage system while Ramanthapur and Uppal sewerage works were completed in the second phase recently.

Already operational

The Habsiguda sewerage system is already operational while officials point out that the network in Uppal and Ramanthapur will become active once the works in few colonies near Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur, are completed.

"We should be able to complete all the works related to the underground network in a month," Uppal Kalan Municipal Commissioner M.S.S. Soma Raju told The Hindu .

Meanwhile, the perennial water shortage that plagued most of the colonies here could be solved by this November with the construction of three additional drinking water reservoirs. What more, drinking water supply would be on alternate days from December.

The daily water requirement for Uppal residents is about 38 lakh gallons per day (LGPD) out of which the municipality is managing to supply only 30 LGPD. With the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board accepting the proposal to supply more water, work on the three elevated service reservoirs at Venkat Reddy Nagar in Ramanthapur, Venkateswara temple, Uppal, and Chilkanagar is in full swing.

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