Krishna water for Maharajgunj

Anjan Kumar Yadav, MP, breaking a coconut to mark the launch of the pipeline works on Thursday.

HYDERABAD, FEB. 3. Water supply to the Maharajgunj Assembly constituency is set to get a fillip, with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) grounding the works on bringing Krishna water to it.

Poor supplies always plagued the constituency, as it is located in the tail end of both Osmansagar and Singur water supply systems.

The Hyderabad MP, Anjan Kumar Yadav, launched the works on laying a 500 mm diameter pipeline from Narayanguda to Boggulkunta at the Boggulkunta reservoir in the heart of the city today. With inflows into the Osmansagar dwindling, Krishna water would be brought to the area to tide over the crisis.

Some 9,000 connections in Ramkoti, Badi Chowdi, parts of Begum Bazar, Goshamahal and Gunfoundry, Aghapura, Nampally, Basheerbagh and Chapel Road, besides Ashokbazar, Osmanshahi, Gowliguda Chaman, Gowliguda and parts of Feelkhana, Maharajgunj, Jambagh and surrounding areas would benefit from the pipeline scheduled to be laid by the month-end.

Drawal increases

With this, the water board would be able to draw an additional 4 MGD of water, taking the total volume of Krishna water being supplied to the city to 62 MGD. The board had spent Rs. 31 crores so far on augmenting Krishna water supplies by taking up grid strengthening works. The Krishna water volume allocated in the first phase of the Krishna drinking water supply project increased from 33 MGD to the present 58 MGD. The commissioned grid improvement works included Sahebnagar-Autonogar, which yielded 7 MGD, Hafeezbaba Nagar to Jahanuma - 10 MGD and Adikmet to Narayanguda - 5 MGD.

Interlinking work

The board Managing Director, B.P. Acharya, informed that another major interlinking work would be taken up from Adikmet to Chilkalguda and Tarnaka at an estimated cost of Rs. 16.5 crores, facilitating drawal of another 21 MGD from the Krishna. "This will be completed by mid-April, giving a major fillip to the drinking water supply position of the city," he maintained.

The water board allocated part of the Krishna water in the project's first phase to its Asmangadh, Chanchalguda, Narayanguda, Adikmet and Hussainsagar zones, covering a major chunk of the twin cities.