Water projects: Rs 1,050 crore JNNURM funds lying unused

HYDERABAD: A file pertaining to granting administrative sanction to five water-related projects at a cost of Rs 1,050 crore is gathering dust. Successive governments have been ignoring it, causing inconvenience to lakhs of citizens in LB Nagar, Serilingampally, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru municipal circles.

The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) in February had sanctioned Rs 1,050 crore under the transition phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWS&SB) to complete five major projects.

The CSMC has cleared a comprehensive water supply scheme for GHMC Serilingampally circle at a cost of Rs 439.51 crore, water supply distribution network for LB Nagar circle at Rs 365.17 crore, laying a 1800 mm diametre pipeline from Osmansagar to Asifnagar water treatment plant (WTP) in place of the existing water conduit at Rs 109.039 crore, distribution network for Ramachandrapuram municipal circle at Rs 78.89 crore and water supply distribution network for Patancheru municipal circle at Rs 58.198 crore.

Following the sanction, the Water Board approached the then united AP government but its pleas fell on deaf ears. The model code of conduct came into force subsequently. They therefore knocked on the doors of the AP chief electoral officer (CEO) again to process the file on tender notification but to no avail. "After the Telangana government came into existence, we approached the MA&UD department and asked them to issue the necessary GOs regarding administrative sanction to the five projects," HMWS&SB projects director M Satyanarayana told TOI.

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