Water Board reviews summer action plan for Hyderabad; focus on drinking water, tankers, desilting and harvest pits

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The enactment   program  involves completing sanctioned drinking h2o  and sewerage works   by March 31.

The enactment program involves completing sanctioned drinking h2o and sewerage works by March 31. | Photo Credit: File Photo

The summertime enactment program of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board this twelvemonth volition beryllium driven by main wide managers who volition beryllium designated arsenic nodal officers for each of the board’s 12 jurisdiction circles.

Apart from preparing enactment plans to implicit immoderate sanctioned drinking h2o and sewerage works by March 31, these officials are besides tasked with supervision for operation of 18,000 rainwater harvesting pits successful the Outer Ring Road limits implicit the adjacent 90 days.

Reviewing the plans connected Tuesday, committee managing manager K. Ashok Reddy said each residential premises of 200 quadrate yards and larger necessitate a RWH pit and for premises implicit 300 quadrate yards, it is mandatory. Mr. Reddy besides said that changes successful the Revenue regulations are being projected for amendment truthful that an RWH pit would beryllium made mandatory for authorisation of each caller connections.

Stressing that uninterrupted h2o tanker proviso is the season’s priority, helium said officials should measure request trends successful their jurisdictions and acceptable up further filling stations and points wherever needed. Additional tankers would beryllium procured if required, and officials were directed to strictly adhere to the norm of delivering h2o tankers wrong 24 hours of booking.

Desilting of sewer lines and manholes by the extremity of May volition besides beryllium a priority, helium said. Mr. Reddy stressed that officials indispensable guarantee punctual removal of discarded generated during desilting works. He besides ordered that each roadworthy restoration works indispensable beryllium completed by the past week of April to debar nationalist inconvenience up of the monsoon.

Executive manager Mayank Mittal, method manager Sudarshan, unit manager Mohammed Abdul Khader, task manager Sridhar, operations manager Vinod Bhargava, CGMs, GMs and different elder officials participated successful the review.

Published - January 28, 2026 12:26 americium IST

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