The Mission Bhagiratha vice-chairman and local MLA Vemula Prasanth Reddy has said that the project works have been going on at a brisk pace and almost 30 per cent work was over till date.
Intake wells
As many as 19 intake wells were being built across the State and three in the district as part of this flagship project of the State Government. Undertaken with an estimated outlay of Rs.40,000 crore the project would provide sufficient safe drinking water to every household in 28,400 habitations once it was completed, he said.
Talking to the mediapersons on Thursday, Mr. Prasanth Reddy, said that by August this year water would be given to 1,995 habitations and by December 6,100 habitations would get water. By December, 2018 all the households in the total habitations would be provided with pure water, he said. Quoting the WHO reports he said that 80 per cent diseases were contracted by people due to consumption of unsafe and contaminated drinking water and in remote tribal hamlets and villages fluoride problem was rampant. In order to avoid waterborne diseases and ensure health to the poor the Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao launched the innovative Water Grid Project, he added.
Potable water
The project would enable people in 1,645 habitations to have access to safe drinking water in the district and for which Rs.2,650 crore was being spent. The district was divided into two segments-SRSP and Singur and the former would supply to areas spreading over five and a half Assembly constituencies while the latter to 3.5 constituencies, he explained.
By December end this year as many as 269 villages in the district would get water under the scheme, he said. Earlier, he told the reporters that in the last two years works worth Rs.765 crores were grounded in his Assembly constituency.
He expressed thanks to Chief Minister Mr. Rao, MP Ms. Kavitha and Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy for their cooperation in the development of his constituency.
