In an attempt to provide basic amenities to the panchayats that were recently merged into the Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT), plans are afoot to extend the Telugu Ganga water supply system to Muthyala Reddy Palle panchayat.
Among the three merged panchayats last year, M.R. Palle is not only more populous than Thimmi Naidu Palem and Rajiv Nagar, but is also much closer to the city.
However, it is plagued by acute water scarcity and efforts by the panchayat to get pipeline water supply have remained a political issue for close to a decade.
As the Telugu Ganga project is the lifeline of the temple city, the merger has brought M.R. Palle too into its ambit. From the water filtration plant in Mangalam, a pipeline will be laid southwards up to Daminedu via Settipalle.
Three elevated tanks with storage capacity of 2300 kilo litres will be built, as part of the Rs.20 crore-project envisaging supplying water through pipeline.
“From the Indiramma housing colony in Daminedu, a new pipeline will be laid along the Chennai-Bengaluru highway up to Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam campus and the water will be stored in M.R. Palle,” says MCT Commissioner V. Vinaychand.
It may be recalled that the corporation had taken up a mammoth exercise of plying 73 water tankers to supply 2.5 to 3 MLD of water to supplement the pipeline water supply in the parched colonies of T.N.Palem and M.R. Palle. As the monsoon has set in, the supply through tankers will be scaled down by July-end, Mr. Vinaychand added.
M.R. Palle on the
city outskirts to
get Telugu Ganga
water soon
