Rs 3,600cr estimated for supply network

  • 11/02/2008

  • Deccan Chronicle

The city water board has prepared a detailed project report to strengthen the supply network on the outskirts of the city at an estimated cost of Rs 3,600 crore. The idea is to provide infrastructure at par with the core city in the 12 erstwhile municipalities which were merged to form Greater Hyderabad. Rs 2,000 crore will be allotted for the network and Rs 1,600 for the drainage system. "We hope that the Centre will allot 35 per cent funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission. We can build the network within 7 years,' said Dr K.S. Jawahar Reddy, managing director of HMWSSB. The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy laid the foundation stone for an administrative building for the water board at Khairatabad.