Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the Mission Bhagiratha officials to ensure filtered water reaches all habitations in the State by December-end this year as new year gift to people and complete the intra-village works, including water connections to individual households, by June-end next.
Reviewing the progress of the project here on Saturday, the CM told the officials to divide the project into two parts for speedy completion of works by including works to be completed before December 31 in part-one and those scheduled to be executed in the next six months in part-two.
Address problems
Asking the officials to focus on the teething problems of the project such as leakages from pipelines, bursting of pipelines due to pressure and leakages and failure of valves in the segments where water was already being supplied, the Chief Minister mentioned that some problems had cropped up for two months after the Gajwel segment was inaugurated in August last.
Along with attending to the problems of pipeline leakages and other aberrations in part-one work which would carry the filtered water to habitations the project officials should execute the part-two work comprising laying intra-village pipelines and giving water connections to all households, the Chief Minister directed. Minor problems would also crop up while supplying water to household connections and they had to be attended on priority basis to ensure stabilisation of the system, he noted.
All habitations
Engineer-in-Chief of Mission Bhagiratha B. Surender Reddy explained to the Chief Minister that out 24,225 habitations planned to be supplied water under the project, 3,431 villages were already getting water and another 5,443 villages would get by October-end. It was being planned to supply water to 6,006 villages more by November-end and to the remaining 9,345 villages by December-end.
On the electricity supply to various components of the project, Chairman and Managing Director of Transmission Corporation of Telangana Ltd D. Prabhakar Rao said all power supply work would be completed by October 2. The Chief Minister complimented the power utility for completing the works two months ahead of schedule.
Priority areas
The Chief Minister told the officials to give priority to supplying water to fluoride-affected areas of Munugode and Devarakonda. He expressed dissatisfaction over the slow progress of works in Palair segment and directed Deputy Chief Minister K. Srihari to visit the works. He stated that 10% of 80 TMC ft allocated for the project would be given to industries from the dedicated reservoir coming up for Hyderabad.
