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Secunderabad Cantonment Board sanctions new water connections

HYDERABAD: After a gap of four years, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has started sanctioning new water connections to Cantonment residents.

The Cantonment Board authorities have taken a decision to clear pending applications in order to increase revenue. "Around 300 applications are pending with the Cantonment Board. Though we have received applications from property owners, we could not take a decision to permit new connections due to water shortage," an SCB water works department official told TOI.

The intimation letters to property owners would be sent in a day or two. After that, the house owners have to deposit Rs 4,000 for a new half-inch water connection and another Rs 2,000 for laying the pipeline, he said.

"The new water connection will be provided in 10 days. Henceforth, the Cantonment Board will sanction connections if citizens approach it with the necessary documents," the official said.

The Board also set a record of sorts in collecting water dues from defaulters.

The officials had slapped notices on around 10,000 defaulters in the Cantonment area. As per records, they have to pay dues worth nearly Rs 5 crore. "Within 48 days, we received Rs 1.03 crore dues from the defaulters, whereas the annual collection was just Rs 8 lakh in 2011-12," the official added.

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'24x7 water supply in parts of Old City'

HYDERABAD: Water woes of citizens of the Chandrayangutta assembly constituency may come to an end soon as two storage reservoirs - 12 million litres (ML) capacity at Riyasathanagar and five ML capacity at Barkas - are ready for commissioning.

With this, the Water Board has completed the task of building seven additional storage reservoirs on the south of Musi under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. "The Water Board is supplying water to these additional reservoirs from Krishna phase I and II. We will, on trial basis, supply water round the clock in some colonies in the Chandrayangutta constituency," Water Board chief general manager G Rameshwar Rao told TOI.

The Water Board had already commissioned five additional storage reservoirs - Mir Alam (13ML), Asmangadh (5 ML), Bandlaguda (2 ML), Chanchalguda (2 ML) and Maisaram (5 ML).

Once these reservoirs are commissioned, apart from improving water supply, low pressure problem would also get solved in areas in the Chandrayangutta constituency. Around 15,000 water connections will be supplied per reservoir, he added.

As per schedule, the Water Board had to complete and commission the reservoirs by June 2011, but due to delay in road works permission from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), works got delayed.

"We have spent Rs 33 crore on the seven additional storage reservoirs. We have completed major systems like inlet and outlet pumping systems at the two reservoirs. Laying pipeline for the distribution network in various areas is in progress.

We will complete the distribution network by October and likely commission them by November. Recently, we did a trial run at Riayasathnagar successfully, while the trail run at Barkas reservoir will start soon," the official added.

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