Nodal agencies ignore TS assurances on SNDP works

HYDERABAD: The government had vowed to complete the Strategic Nala Development Plan by August this year but has been able to complete only about half the work because nodal agencies have failed to fulfill the assurances made by the minister and government officials concerned. Officials said the completed portion of the SNDP has addressed the annual flood issues in areas, like Bandlaguda, Nagole, Hayatnagar, Singareni Colony, Ramanthapur, Alwal, Kompally, Jedimetla, Madinaguda, Nizampet, Banjara Colony, Saraswati Nagar Mansoorabad, Christian Colony in Vanasthalipuram, Kodandaramnagar, P&T Colony, among others. Elsewhere, the government had finalised the departments that would construct 14 bridges and a link road across the Musi and Esa rivers at an estimated cost of Rs 545 crore. In addition to this, on July 29, minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav announced that a new bridge would be built at Moosarambagh within 15 days as the existing bridge get submerged by flooding in the river.