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Steep hike in contingency plan allocation

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Feb. 7. The contingency plan to meet the drinking water supply situation in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Area in 2002-03 has been revised following a further review.

The earlier Rs.13.5-crore contingency plan had been revised to Rs.51 crores and submitted to the Government, it was disclosed in the District Development Review Committee meeting held

here on Thursday.

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board submitted that as per the water levels recorded on January 24, the levels in Osmansagar, Himayathsagar and Singur fell significantly, compared to the levels of last year on the same date. The water level in the Manjira reservoir, however, remained almost the same.

While during 2001-02, the Metropolitan area was supplied 187 mgd, including 25 mgd of groundwater, against a demand of 230 mgd, the supply now got reduced to 137 mgd due to lack of inflows, resulting in depletion in levels.

To meet the immediate needs for pumping arrangements, control of leakages in transmission mains, reservoirs and drilling of new borewells, etc., the Government released Rs.5 crores in October last year under Calamity Relief Fund. Action was taken for pumping raw water at Osmansagar and Himayathsagar. Hydro-geological surveys had been completed all along Osmansagar conduit and at Miralam by the Ground Water Department for drilling of borewells. The survey work was also completed at the proposed water bodies near Kukatpally and Miyapur. The groundwater survey for drilling of new borewells at other places in the MCH area would be completed soon. SThe proposals under the main action plan included, among others, additional pumping arrangements for drawing dead storage from Himayatsagar and Osmansagar sources and for pumping dead storage from Singur dam.

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