400-yr-old lake turned into dumping ground

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USA-based Eclat Health Solutions has established a centre in Karimnagar after inking a pact with the Telangana Government during IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao's visit to the USA. Kakatiya Sandbox, a hub for social innovation, has been set up in Nizamabad. Over 150 student projects have been implemented within the first year of its establishment.

Mr K.T. Rama Rao has maintained all along that the government wants the IT industry to expand beyond Hyderabad, to create more job opportunities. Jayesh Ranjan, the Secretary of the IT department says that Khammam will soon be added to the IT map of Telangana. who are residing in the colonies around the lake are facing problems.

Once Necknampur Lake was a scenic hangout spot for not only Necknampur residents but also nearby residents. Now they are scared even to venture there. The pollution in the lake, filled with industrial waste and sewage, led to increase in mosquitoes and pollution of ground water in surrounding areas.

Recently local MLA Prakash Goud and MP Konda Visweswar Reddy along with GHMC and other officials visited the lake.

They have directed the officials to take steps for the protection of the lake from pollution. Accordingly Hyderabad Metropolitan Water supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) managing director Dana Kishore has written to the state government on this issue. In the letter Dana Kishore suggested the diversion of sewage away from the lake and also the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) facility for treatment and disposal of sewage so to prevent pollution. Tentative cost will be around `8.84crore for construction of the treatment plant.