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No water supply outside GHMC limits
No Water Supply Outside GHMC Limits. Water Board announced that water supply to residents in the outskirts would be stopped.
Cash-strapped Water Board threatens to cut off supplies from January but can apply provided they agree to pay monthly tariffs and other charges
Water Board announced that water supply to residents in the outskirts would be stopped. CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is the Water Board Chairman, has also given the nod to disconnect water supply.
However, as a last chance, the Water Board suggested that residents take permission and pay the monthly tariffs and other charges if they want to get water supply. With January 1, 2014, as the deadline to complete the formalities, citizens are left high and dry.
With hardly a fortnight left, citizens living outside the Greater Hyderabad limits are in for a New Year shock.
Hyderabad Metro Water Sewerage and Service Board (HMWS & SB) has made it clear that they can only supply water to the Greater Hyderabad limits and the outskirts would have to look for alternatives. This new rule would be applicable to industries, villages, colonies under JNNURM and Rajiv Gruha Kalpa Colonies. The step was taken after a huge demand of 105.60 million gallons to be pumped every day proved to be a huge task for the Water Board.
Earlier water to the outskirts was supplied from Singur, Manjeera and Krishna pipelines and now this would be stopped.
The people on the fringes of Greater Hyderabad would have to seek permission from the HMWS&SB to get water. The application would be reviewed by the board-consisting of the Chief Minister as the chairman, concerned minister, principal secretary and others. The board has to give its approval for the water supply.
Sources say that Kiran Kumar Reddy has reportedly given a nod for this proposal at a recent meeting. This step was taken as the water supplied by the Water Board would only suffice the requirements of Greater Hyderabad. The Board is supplying 340 million gallons per day (MGD) of water from Osman Sagar, Himayat Sagar, Krishna, Singur and Manjeera reservoirs.
Of this, 309.31 MGD is supplied to the city, outer limits (30.11 MGD), pipelines passing through villages (7.11 MGD), other municipalities (2.16 MGD), industries (7.13 MGD) and others (7.21 MGD).
The residents of Medak and Ranga Reddy districts are pressurising the Water Board to supply water. Taking this into account, they started supplying 30.11MGD of water. With 90 MGD Krishna Phase III works and 172 MGD Godavari works to be operational by June 2014, the villages, through which the piepelines pass, are pressurising the officials to supply water.
The elected representatives are also backing them. At this juncture, the HMWS&SB has proposed new rules wherein the Board has to give its nod for water supply along with connection and monthly charges. Now the current demand for water is 105.60 MGD on the outskirts.
