Hyderabad: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Tuesday said l2 cities in Telangana were covered under The Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). The cities include Adilabad, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahbubnagar, Miryalaguda, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Ramagundam, Siddipet, Suryapet and Warangal.
This was stated by Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. Under AMRUT, 66 projects were taken up which included 27 water supply projects worth Rs.1,424.09 crore, four sewerage and septage management projects worth Rs.203.3 crore and 35 green spaces and park projects worth Rs.35.69 crore.
All these projects have been completed. Under AMRUT, 4,336.54 km length of water pipeline and 278.53 km length of sewer pipeline has been laid, 5.54 lakh water tap connections and 0.87 lakh sewer connections have been provided under AMRUT and convergence.
Further, 18.25 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) capacity and 442.45 acres of green space area has been developed in Telangana under AMRUT.
An amount of Rs. 1,663.08 crore was sanctioned for these projects, which includes Central Assistance (CA) of Rs.832.6 crore. The State has submitted utilization of Rs.806.21 crore against Rs.831.52 crore released under AMRUT. The AMRUT was launched on June 25, 2015 in 500 cities (485 cities including 15 merged cities) and towns across the country.
