KTR launches ORR water works Phase II
2 years, 10 months ago

KTR launches ORR water works Phase II

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Municipal administration minister K.T. Rama Rao, along with education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, on Monday laid foundation stone for the Outer Ring Road Phase-II drinking water supply scheme at Alkapoor Township in Manikonda. The project will cater to drinking water requirements of 980 colonies and gated communities within ORR jurisdiction. Speaking on the occasion, Rama Rao said, “We have completed 75 years of Independence, yet if some places do not get water supply or electricity, it is not good. Earlier, there was a saying ‘What Bengal does today, India does tomorrow’, but presently ‘what Telangana does today, India does tomorrow.” “Hyderabad does not mean only the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, but all the 25 municipalities across the city.

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Revanth Reddy reviews plans for Godavari water transfer to Hyderabad
1 month ago

Revanth Reddy reviews plans for Godavari water transfer to Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy held a high-level review meeting with officials from the Irrigation Department and Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to address Hyderabad’s growing drinking water needs. The Chief Minister directed officials to prepare a comprehensive report on lifting Godavari water from the Kondapochamma and Mallanna Sagar reservoirs. To expedite the process, Revanth ordered the …

Telangana will be a role model in power production: Bhatti
3 months, 1 week ago

Telangana will be a role model in power production: Bhatti

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: Telangana will be transformed into a model state in terms of power production, said Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Saturday. Keeping in view the power demand by 2030, the government was taking steps to produce 20,000 MW of green electricity and solar power as well as pump storage energy involving moving water between reservoirs. The government will …

Telangana: Use Godavari water judiciously, says Congress MLA
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: Use Godavari water judiciously, says Congress MLA

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Former minister and Bodhan MLA P. Sudarshan Reddy on Friday said farmers who get irrigation water from Alisagar must use water judiciously as there is poor flow in the river Godavari. The legislator said all eligible farmers will get the Rs 2 lakh crop loan waiver. Reddy along with district collector Rajiv Gandhi Hanumanthu released water from Alisagar lift …

Full Water Supply for Kharif, Rabi: Ponguleti
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Full Water Supply for Kharif, Rabi: Ponguleti

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: The project ayacut farmers would get water supply for both the crop seasons this year as irrigation projects were bemiring with water, said minister for revenue and housing Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Wednesday while releasing water to the left main canal from Palair reservoir at Kusumanchi in Khammam district. The minister informed that the irrigation tanks in Palaiar constituency …

Andhra Pradesh: Provide drinking water to every household, says Kollu Ravindra
6 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Provide drinking water to every household, says Kollu Ravindra

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA : Minister for Mining and Excise Kollu Ravindra instructed the officials to fulfil the vision of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu by providing fresh drinking water through taps to every household. During the meeting, irrigation officials informed the minister that proposals amounting to Rs 55 crore had been sent to higher officials for 245 works, including desilting canals, in …

Congress Aims to Transform Hyderabad into Global Investment Hub: Uttam
7 months ago

Congress Aims to Transform Hyderabad into Global Investment Hub: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

: Civil supplies and irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Congress government would transform Hyderabad into a global investment destination, competing with the world's top metropolises.Speaking after inaugurating the IGBC Green Property Show 2024 at Hitex on Friday along with industries and IT minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu, Uttam Kumar Reddy stated that the Congress government aimed to …

Most Towns in Telangana Have No Water Crisis
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Most Towns in Telangana Have No Water Crisis

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government is ensuring that people get adequate drinking water by implementing the summer action plan that it had drafted earlier to address any shortfall during the summer. Official sources said Chief Minister A.Revanth Reddy was regularly monitoring the drinking water situation and issuing directions to officials on measures to overcome any shortage. With reports of severe heat …

No Bengaluru-like water crisis in Hyderabad, says Dana Kishore
8 months, 2 weeks ago

No Bengaluru-like water crisis in Hyderabad, says Dana Kishore

The Hindu  

Principal Secretary M. Dana Kishore on Monday said that there is no shortage of drinking water for summer months in Hyderabad. Addressing media persons, while also spot reviewing the situation division-wise with respective directors and general managers here, he said the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is more than ready to provide water solutions. Mr. Dana Kishore also …

Telangana CM asks officials to ensure proper power, drinking water supply in summer
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana CM asks officials to ensure proper power, drinking water supply in summer

The Hindu  

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday ordered officials to ensue proper water and power supply during the ongoing summer, keeping in mind the rising demand for energy and depleting water levels in reservoirs. He complimented the power utilities and Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka, who holds the energy portfolio, for ensuring power supply in tune with the demand. …

Water woes in Kerala’s wetland
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Water woes in Kerala’s wetland

The Hindu  

A narrow, broken road runs alongside Nattuthodu, a canal clogged with water hyacinth and mucky water. In a hushed tone, she says, “If the supply does not arrive, we will run out of drinking water by the evening.” Shantha’s four-member family has been relying on private water supply for several years for drinking and cooking, whether in the rainy season …

Drinking Water Scarcity Across North Telangana Districts, Contaminated Water in Taps
9 months, 1 week ago

Drinking Water Scarcity Across North Telangana Districts, Contaminated Water in Taps

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Drinking water problems arose in many areas of north Telangana districts ahead of the summer season. Tribal areas in Utnoor agency area in undivided Adilabad district witnessed a shortage in drinking water supply. Under the Karimnagar municipal corporation limits, people said irregular timings for drinking water supply was affecting their schedules. “There is no need to worry about drinking …

Restrain Andhra Pradesh from drawing more Srisailam water: Telangana to KRMB
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Restrain Andhra Pradesh from drawing more Srisailam water: Telangana to KRMB

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Telangana officials have requested that the Krishna River Management Board restrain Andhra Pradesh from drawing any water from the Srisailam reservoir for this water year. In a letter to the KRMB, Irrigation Secretary Rahul Bojja said that AP is entitled to draw only 15 tmcft from Srisailam for drinking water supply to Chennai. “As such it is to be …

KTR terms Telangana CM Revanth inefficient in handling water crisis
9 months, 2 weeks ago

KTR terms Telangana CM Revanth inefficient in handling water crisis

The Hindu  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and Sircilla MLA K.T. Rama Rao termed Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy as inefficient in addressing the water problems in Telangana when the State received 14% excess rainfall in 2023-24. Taking to ‘X’, Mr. Rama Rao cited the India Meteorological Department figures and said that the State received 14% excess rainfall for the year 2023-24 …

ORR Phase-II to end water woes on outskirts by March
1 year ago

ORR Phase-II to end water woes on outskirts by March

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Having missed the deadline twice in 2023, the Outer Ring Road Phase-II project that is intended to provide drinking water and boost the existing supply in the area located between the GHMC border and ORR, is likely to be completed by March according to water board officials heading the project, T.V. The ORR Phase-II project has been taken up …

Ahead of polls, KCR sanctions Rs 195 crore for drinking water needs in Kamareddy
1 year, 3 months ago

Ahead of polls, KCR sanctions Rs 195 crore for drinking water needs in Kamareddy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Ahead of Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao’s election contest from Kamareddy assembly constituency, the state government has sanctioned '195 crore for a drinking water project in the region. A new pipeline will be laid from the Sriram Sagar project to Mallannagutta for supply of drinking water. During Congress rule, a new pipeline had been laid from the Sriram Sagar project …

TS in power surplus: KTR raps Opposition
1 year, 3 months ago

TS in power surplus: KTR raps Opposition

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: IT minister K.T. Rama Rao said that Telangana had become a power-surplus state despite providing round-the-clock free supply to farmers, rapping the BJP and Congress-ruled states that were facing energy deficits. In a social media post on X, Rama Rao said that the double-engine states of BJP-governed and Congress-governed states or those of its coalition partners are facing power …

West Bengal to provide potable water to every rural household by 2024, says minister
1 year, 4 months ago

West Bengal to provide potable water to every rural household by 2024, says minister

India TV News  

The West Bengal government is set to provide drinking water connection to every rural household in the state by 2024, Public Health Engineering Minister Pulak Roy said in the assembly on Wednesday. Roy said the state has already provided water connection to more than 62 lakh families in 2023 through the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. By March 2024, every household …

Telangana Minister KTR Condemns Centre's Discrimination Against State's Irrigation Projects
1 year, 5 months ago

Telangana Minister KTR Condemns Centre's Discrimination Against State's Irrigation Projects

ABP News  

Telangana's Bharat Rashtra Samithi Working President, KT Rama Rao, has accused the BJP-led Central government of discriminatory practices against the state's irrigation projects. In an open letter addressing the Environment Assessment Committee's deferral of environmental clearance for the Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, Rama Rao expressed deep disappointment with what he perceives as intense discrimination by the Central government against …

Agriculture, drinking water, health-related issues dominate quarterly KDP meeting
1 year, 5 months ago

Agriculture, drinking water, health-related issues dominate quarterly KDP meeting

The Hindu  

Issues related to agriculture, drinking water and health dominated the quarterly Karnataka Development Programme meeting in Yadgir on Monday. Drinking water Mr. Darshanapur and Mr. Kandkur and also Channareddy Patil Tunnur and Raja Venkatappa Naik, MLA of Yadgir and Shorapur, raised the issue of drinking water shortage. All MLAs including the Minister asked the officials of Karnataka Urban Drinking Water …

AP seeks curbs on TS in drawal of Krishna water
1 year, 8 months ago

AP seeks curbs on TS in drawal of Krishna water

Deccan Chronicle  

Anantapur: The AP irrigation department has urged the Krishna River Management Board to allow it draw at least 7tmc-ft of water from the Srisailam Reservoir to meet the immediate drinking water needs of the state this summer season. It has also pointed out to the board that Telangana state has already utilised 90.36tmc-ft more water than its allotted quota of …

Board to supply more drinking water by end of May
1 year, 9 months ago

Board to supply more drinking water by end of May

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board managing director Dana Kishore on Tuesday said that there was no problem in the supply of fresh water to the city and the ORR zone. Speaking at a review meeting, with officials from the revenue, operations and maintenance, transmission and summer departments, Kishore said the board was supplying 565 million gallons of …

Hyderabad development is ultimate motto: KTR
1 year, 10 months ago

Hyderabad development is ultimate motto: KTR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: "Irrespective of parties and places, development of the entire Hyderabad is the ultimate motto of the Telangana government," minister K.T. Work to reinforce the road network in the Old City is progressing quickly as part of the Strategic Road Development Programme implemented by the GHMC, and various flyovers and road building projects have been completed. The state government is …

Water woes to haunt ORR residents till July next despite receiving good monsoon
2 years, 3 months ago

Water woes to haunt ORR residents till July next despite receiving good monsoon

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Water Supply and Sewerage Board had committed to complete the 2,863 km of drinking water pipeline by December but has now postponed it until the next monsoon. The water board administrators stated that the project could only be completed by the following monsoon. However, highly placed sources within the water board claim that the HMWSSB …

Andhra Pradesh worried, TS uses Sagar water for power generation
2 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh worried, TS uses Sagar water for power generation

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government would raise the issue of the Telangana government drawing water from Nagarjunasagar dam for hydel power generation – a violation of norms -- at the Krishna River Management Board meet on May 6. We are going to raise the issue once again at the KRMB meeting, so as to stop the drawal of water from …

Drinking water crisis stares at AP, TS
2 years, 8 months ago

Drinking water crisis stares at AP, TS

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state are expected to face shortage of drinking water this summer especially in May if the Telangana state government continues to draw water from Nagarjunasagar dam to generate hydel power defying directions from the Krishna River Management Board not to do so. In AP, people living in the two erstwhile districts of Guntur and Prakasam …

Telangana minister KTR threatens to cut power, water supply to military area in Secunderabad
2 years, 9 months ago

Telangana minister KTR threatens to cut power, water supply to military area in Secunderabad

India Today  

Telangana Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development KT Rama Rao threatened to cut power and drinking water supply to defence areas in Secunderabad cantonment on Saturday. KTR claimed that the local military authority was ‘unnecessarily’ causing hardship to citizens of Hyderabad by closing roads and constructing check dams. “It's a shocking comment from Telangana municipal minister KTR, who is …

Union Ministry of Jal Shakti to hold meet with KRMB, GRMB chiefs
3 years, 3 months ago

Union Ministry of Jal Shakti to hold meet with KRMB, GRMB chiefs

New Indian Express  

Although both the Telugu states have agreed to cooperate with the Centre in the implementation of the jurisdiction, they have aired their concerns and sought amendments to the same. In fact, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandarsekhar Rao has requested Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to extend the date of implementation as there was not much time and …

10 years on, WTP at twin reservoirs still remains on paper
3 years, 3 months ago

10 years on, WTP at twin reservoirs still remains on paper

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Callousness of civic authorities is not only causing huge losses to the exchequer, but also is depriving its denizens of their rightful amount of drinking water for long. A decade ago, the twin reservoirs reached their dead storage levels and the water board officials, in order maintain the full tank levels, proposed to construct a 90 MGD water treatment …

TRS promises free drinking water in Hyderabad
4 years, 1 month ago

TRS promises free drinking water in Hyderabad

India TV News  

Following into footsteps of Delhi, the government of Telangana has promised free drinking water supply to every household in Hyderabad using up to 20,000 litres per month. Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday announced that people in the state capital will get free water from December. KCR, as Rao is popularly known, said Hyderabad …

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