Water supply to OU twice the agreed quantity, says Board
Water Board says it is supplying 1,271 kilolitres of water to the university daily whereas the agreed quantity is 455 kilolitres per day; the clari cation comes after BRS president’s post on alleged water shortage on OU campus goes viral
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) on Monday said it is supplying over twice the agreed quantity of drinking water to Osmania University.
As per the agreement between the Water Board and the University, the institution limits are to be provided with 455 kilo litres per day (kld). But it has been providing 1,194 kld. As per latest gures, this supply was enhanced by another 77 kld, making it 1,271 kld now.
Osmania University campus gets its water supply from two sources: Tarnaka, O&M division VII and Adikmet, O&M division V through 200mm diameter pipeline.
The Board engineers reviewed the situation in the university limits on Monday and said there was no interruption in the supply. However, maintenance of water through internal pipelines for supply to various hostels is in the university’s purview. Water ocials said the Board was ready to provide more water, over an above the present
supply, on request.
Water Board chief C. Sudarshan Reddy also spoke to Vice-Chancellor D. Ravinder and enquired about the alleged water crisis.
The matter came to light on Sunday, a night after women students sat outside their hostel in protest alleging negligence of the authorities in supplying water.
The protesters alleged that the hostel director provided only one water tanker per day for several hundred students.
While pictures and videos of the situation quickly went viral, the traction reached over 62,000 views and comments on Monday when BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao posted the protest video, along with a hostel notice, on his ‘◣’ account.
“Telangana CM and Dy CM were misleading the people on power, irrigation and drinking water supply in the State for the past 4 months. Notice of Osmania University Chief Warden conrms that all their claims were farce. The truth is that there is power, drinking water and irrigation water crisis in Telangana,” he wrote.
The undated hostel notice that Mr. Rao posted was purportedly issued by the chief warden of OU, which says that hostels and messes will be closed from May 1 till May 31 in view of summer vacation.
“Due to severe summer conditions there is shortage of water and electricity in the hostels. All boarders are kindly requested to cooperate in this regard,” the notice added.