HYDERABAD: In less than a month after the GHMC undertook repairs of rain-battered roads at a cost of Rs. 75 crore, a new round of digging will be taken up in a quarter of the city’s roads to lay water pipelines.
Out of the 9,000 km roads under the GHMC limits, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water supply & Sewerage Board will dig up 2,700 km of roads to provide drinking water supply to the households of 12 municipalities on the outskirts of the city.
The project, taken up with a loan of Rs. 1,900 crore from the HUDCO, includes construction of 56 reservoirs besides ensuring water supply to the houses from Manjeera, Singur, Osman Sagar and Himayath Sagar.
Roads restoration
Municipal Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy, who briefed the media after a meeting with water board officials, said that though the deadline was 2018, the project would be completed in a phased manner before May 2017 so that the roads are restored before the next monsoon.
Digging activity will take place in and around Alwal, Kapra, Uppal, Ramachandrapuram, Qutbullapur, L.B. Nagar, Rajendranagar, Serlingampally, Kukatpally and Patancheru.
The works will be taken up in coordination with various government departments like Traffic Police, electricity and others, said the Commissioner. He said that a review meeting will be held every month with the contractors, officials and residential welfare associations to initiate steps that will cause less inconvenience to the public.
The Commissioner also said that road repair works had been stopped at various places where the water board was planning to take up digging activity.
Minimum digging
Hyderabad Water Board MD Dana Kishore informed that digging would be minimum over 2,000 km of road and for the rest, road cutting will be taken up on footpaths. He said that the officials would be asked to maintain a timeline so that the work was completed before the deadline.
The Managing Director said that for every 15 km of the project, booklets had been printed with information for that particular stretch including length, deadlines, contractors name and the number of connections.
