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HYDERABAD: Improvement of water distribution network and implementation of sewerage master plan in the Rajendranagar circle of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation seems to be a distant dream for locals. The Rs 314 crore mega project was taken up by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission a few years ago. However, the project's main work like construction of a sewage treatment plant (STP) at Mir Alam has not even begun due to land acquisition problems. Though the contractor of the joint venture project MEIL-BRCCPL-AIPPL is ready to execute the work, the authorities could not complete the acquisition process. The project has been proposed in five zones of Rajendranagar circle which includes construction of ground level storage reservoir (GLSR) of 23 million litres (ML) at places like Budwel (two), Golden Heights, Shastripuram and Suleman Nagar, trunk mains, sub mains, lateral sewers

HYDERABAD: With only four days left for the mega biodiversity meet, host city Hyderabad is still far from pretty, the multi-crore beauty treatment notwithstanding. And painting the ugliest picture is the official venue for CoP-11, Hitex-HICC which is thick with dug-up stretches, broken road dividers, withering saplings, heaps of felled branches and a stinking water body. The unfinished parking lot and helipad, exclusively being re-done for the dignitaries, on Wednesday appeared more like a construction site sitting in the middle of a swamp. Most of the previously planted saplings in and around the venue are on their death bed and being hurriedly replaced with marigolds and other seasonal flowers which, however, have so far failed to uplift the look of the venue, instead only adding to the clutter and chaos. Government-appointed contractors working at the site said that they were confident that they would succeed in fixing every gap in the remaining two-three days to pre