Keshavapuram project on backburner until Assembly polls

HYDERABAD: It has been two years since the Telangana state government granted administrative sanction to a private agency to construct the Keshavapuram Reservoir Project, and it has not moved an inch since. Though the Municipal Administration and Urban Development announced on several occasions that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao would lay the foundation for the project, which will ensure assured and reliable water supply to Greater Hyderabad at least until 2050, the nodal agency, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, has yet to complete the land acquisition process. Despite the fact that authorities claimed to have completed 90% of the land acquisition process, the project's status has remained unchanged since February 2020. To reduce land acquisition in private properties, the government has already redesigned the project, reducing the storage capacity at Keshavapuram to 5 TMC.