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Water board to start road-cutting from today

Hyderabad: The city’s battered roads are in for another round of cutting. And this time it will be for the whole of this month to lay 350 km of pipelines to ensure daily water supply from November 1.

Armed with permission from GHMC, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) decided to take up road-cutting from Monday onwards in different divisions.

The traffic police has permitted road-cutting from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on busy roads but the Board wants to take up the work from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. The timings are being worked out with the police. The GHMC has asked the Board to complete the pipe laying work by November 1 so that it could lay new roads by November 15.

At present some 40,000 connections are getting daily supplies.

The ambitious programme has been bogged down with delays mostly due to shortage of ductile iron pipes.

Now the Board has acquired 350 km of pipes for creating the network for daily supply.

“We might require additional 20 to 30 MGD of water for ensuring daily supply to 3 lakh consumers,” said Board’s Managing Director G. Asok Kumar.

At present the city is getting 294 mgd of water -- 11 mgd from (Osmansagar), 6 mgd (Himayatsagar), 45 mgd (Manjira), 75mgd (Singur) and 157 mgd (Krishna).

A division wise action plan is prepared for daily supply of water in the core GHMC area. The number of connections to get daily water in the old city are: division I (24,000) and division II (45,000). division III (Mehdipatnam, Asifnagar, Karwan) 50,000, division IV (Nampally, Red Hills, Gunfoundry (29,000), division V (Narayanguda, Adikmet areas) 45,000, division VI (Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills., S.R. Nagar) 50,000, division VII (Secunderabad, Marredpally, Tarnaka, Begumpet) 15,000 and division X (L.B. Nagar area ) 21,000.

The duration of daily supply will be for one hour to one-and-a-half hour as any further supply will result in wastage of water, it is said.

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