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IT corridor floats on sewage
Posted by Srini Uppala | November 17, 2007 | 572 views
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Loading ...The IT corridor of Greater Hyderabad Hitec city — Gachibowli, Madhapur and other parts of Serilingampally municipality — lacks a sewerage system. In fact, around 60 per cent of the new growth area in the city does not have a sewerage system and 40 per cent of the existing sewerage system in the city was built by the last Nizam.
But Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans to start work on a new sewerage network soon. GHMC will dig up roads in the city including some in the IT corridor under a master plan for a new sewer network approved by the Centre’s JNNURM. This is likely to cause more than the odd bother and GHMC has begun to prepare people for it. “Citizens do not know what sort of inconvenience is caused when roads are dug up to lay sewer lines. We have not done this in Hyderabad on a such a large scale in the last 40 years. We plan to lay the lines in the next two years and the process is going to cause much inconvenience to the citizens. I appeal to them to bear with the corporation,” GHMC commissioner C.V.S.K. Sarma said.
He was delivering a talk on the activities of GHMC at a programme organised by federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the Builders Forum of Andhra Pradesh here on Saturday. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy is likely to lay the foundation stone by the month-end for the installing of sewerage lines in areas of the old city at an estimated cost of Rs 150 crores. Citizens of old city have had to put up with overflowing and clogged drainage for many years.
Dr Sarma said that he has invited top experts from developed countries to study the traffic of Hyderabad and suggest the best way to synchronise traffic signals. “I have also invited experts from various countries to study the possibility of laying an underground railway network for the entire city,” the GHMC chief said.
SOURCES:
Deccan Chronicle
Topics: Public Concerns, Govt Failures, Health |
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