IT SECTOR TO GET SEVEN RESERVOIRS

The IT corridor will get seven new water reservoirs with a capacity of storing more than one crore litres by this Ugadi festival. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is planning to invite Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to launch the programme.

The seven new reservoirs will enable 30,000 new water connections in the IT corridor. The Water Board’s director (projects) M. Yella Swamy said this will bridge the demand-supply gap. “The board has also constructed inlet, outlet and distribution lines,” he said.

Construction of reservoirs at Hafeezpet, Nallagandla, Gopanpally, Miyapur, Deepthisrinagar, Kukatpally and KPHB is over and six are yet to be completed of the 13 assigned to the IT corridor. At present, 60 per cent of households in Gachibowli, Madhapur, Kondapur, Miyapur, Chandanagar, Serilingampally and other places have no water connection. The lone UGC member from Telangana, Prof G. Gopal Reddy, has stated that studies relating to Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy are very much in the scheme of things of the Central government. Contrary to speculations of putting a break on such centres, the UGC will come up with a comprehensive plan to make them fullfledged and do more research studies, he said.

“Earlier such studies used to depend on funds allotted in the five-year plans. UGC wants to encourage and strengthen the Centres with required funds and facilities. More details will be out after the UGC Council meeting this month-end,” he said.

Reacting to the unconfirmed reports about UGC stopping funding for the Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy Centre in JNU, he said that efforts are being made to blame UGC. Those reports are false.