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Uppal Municipality: The First Municipality To Have Total Underground Sewerage Network
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | August 25, 2006 | 1,380 views
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Loading ...Uppal Municipality is on the threshold of becoming the first municipality in the State to have total underground drainage system in place, excluding the municipal corporations.Barring a few colonies in Ramanthapur, works on the underground sewerage network and subsequent to the relaying of dug up roads is complete in Habsiguda, Uppal and most of Ramanthapur.
The project, taken up at a cost of Rs.32 crores, is expected to permanently solve the problem of inadequate sewerage system in the municipality. M.S.S. Somaraju, Municipal Commissioner said the new system was designed to meet the requirements of another 20 years taking into account the rapid expansion of the area and the increasing population. The project was designed and taken up in association with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB), which is coordinating similar works in all the surrounding municipalities.
Mr. Somaraju says a door-to-door survey will be done after the STP is completed to ensure that all houses are connected to the lines and the contributions made.
A major portion of the money was raised with Government assistance while the municipality itself contributed Rs. 3 crores from its funds. The proposals were submitted under the Eco-Conservation Project to get maximum assistance from the Government. Around Rs. 3 crores was raised from the residents with each dwelling in the slums contributing Rs. 2,000, individual households Rs. 4,000 and each flat Rs. 5,000. Residents of Habsiguda contributed Rs. 2 crores in the first phase out of the Rs. 10 crore project as their share.
In the first phase of the project in 2003 taken up at a cost of Rs. 10 crores, officials took up the Habsiguda region for revamping the sewerage system while Ramanthapur and Uppal sewerage works were completed in the second phase recently. The second phase of the project covering the areas of Ramanthapur and Uppal taken up at a cost of Rs. 22 crores is almost complete and officials were awaiting the installation of the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at Nallcheruvu to enable them to link the sewage lines to it before releasing into the Musi river.
The Habsiguda sewerage system is already operational while officials point out that the network in Uppal and Ramanthapur will become active once the works in few colonies near Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur, are completed.
“We should be able to complete all the works related to the underground network in a month,” Uppal Kalan Municipal Commissioner M.S.S. Soma Raju told The Hindu.
We wish other municipalities will also take up some inspiration from this and forge ahead to solve the sewage problems in Hyderabad.
Sources:
The Hindu
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