Netas field water questions with ‘Krishna-Godavari’
Citizens are asking candidates when their drinking water problems will be solved
By : m. roushan ali
Update: 2014-04-18 05:49 GMT
Hyderabad: Candidates in Hyderabad’s surrounding municipalities are chanting the ‘Krishna-Godavari’ mantra to escape the wrath of the public. Voters of peripheral Assembly constituencies like Malkajgiri, Uppal, Serilingampally, Qutbullapur, Rajendernagar, Kukatpally and LB Nagar are asking candidates when their drinking water problems will be solved.
Though the candidates are paying for mobile water tankers to ensure that voters are kept in a good mood, they are trying to impress upon the electorate that a permanent solution to their drinking water problems would be in place only when the Krishna Phase-III and Godavari Phase-I were commissioned.
While the Rs 1,670-crore Krishna Phase-III project will bring an additional 90 MGD water to the city, the Rs 3,375-crore Godavari Phase-I project will fetch 172 MGD.
Candidates are being flooded with water-related complaints and the two ongoing water schemes have come to the rescue of the contesting candidates. It may be mentioned that several areas in peripheral Assembly segments get water only once in three days and sometimes once in five days.
The water shortage problem becomes worse during summer with some colonies getting supplies only once a week. Even worse is the fact that hundreds of new colonies in these peripheral Assembly segments do not have water distribution lines at all.
“The water problem is something which cannot be solved overnight. We are telling voters that Krishna Phase-III will be commissioned by the year-end and water problems in most of the colonies would be solved. Though the Godavari water scheme is likely to be delayed, it is expected to be completed early next year,” said Jampana Pratap of YSRC contesting from the Kukatpally Assembly constituency.
The situation is not different in LB Nagar and Malkajgiri as both D. Sudheer Reddy and N. Sridhar of the Congress are assuring the voters here that only a Congress government can complete projects such as Krishna Phase-III and Godavari Phase-I.
“Krishna Phase-II was commissioned during the Congress government and even Phase-III will be commissioned by the Congress government. Even Godavari Phase-II, to bring another 172 MGD water to the city, would be started once Godavari-Phase-I is completed,” Mr Sudheer Reddy said.