Poor to get tap connectivity at just Re 1

KARIMNAGAR: Following a government order on Tuesday, the scheme conceived by Karimnagar Municipal Corporation (KMC) S. Ravinder Singh to provide water connection to those below poverty line (BPL) and food security card holders for Re 1, will be implemented in all civic bodies across the state. Ravinder Singh had started this scheme on the occasion of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s birthday celebrations held on February 17 in 2015.

Speaking to this newspaper, Mr Singh thanked the Chief Minister, irrigation minister, T. Harish Rao and IT minister K. Taraka Rama Rao for implementing his scheme throughout the state. “Now, everybody in the state will have a tap connection. Women don’t need to stand in queue  for several hours,” he observed. “I had conceived the scheme because I wanted to see smile on the faces of the poor. I had drawn inspiration from the Chief Minister who conceived Telangana Water Grid aimed at providing drinking water to rural parts round the clock,” recalled the mayor.  He claimed the KMC could record a surge in tap connections. Menace of illegal connections is being curbed, he added.
As many as 7,000 new tap connections were provided to the eligible beneficiaries from February 17 to date. Total number of connections has increased from 32,000 to 41,000 from 2015 to 2016. Similarly, many hundreds of illegal connections were regularised.