Hyderabad Becomes First Indian City to Treat 100 Per Cent Sewerage: KTR

Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao claimed that the initiative of the BRS government to treat 100 per cent of sewerage generated by the city with an outlay of `3,866 had borne fruit. The increase in capacity to treat 2,000 million litres a day (MLD) of sewerage meant that the city was the first in India to be treating 100 per cent of its sewerage.

In a post on X, he said, “Happy and proud to share that our planning and efforts are paying off. The efforts of KCR are bearing fruit. This was planned as a first step towards Musi river rejuvenation and subsequent beautification for which global design tenders also had been called.”

In another post, he shared, “What did KCR government achieve in its tenure of 9.5 years? Made Telangana the state with the highest per capita income in India.”

The post with data on the per capita income cited Telangana’s as $4,475 while against the national average of $2,677. It placed the state fifth on this score after Sikkim, Goa, Delhi and Chandigarh, Rama Rao said.