Drinking water to all villages in Telangana: CM KCR's new year gift

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has reminded that Mission Bhagiratha works are going on in tune with the challenge made by him that if all the habitations in the State do not get pure drinking water in the State, the TRS will not contest the next general elections. The Chief Minister said such a challenge is never made in the country and hence the works should be done in accordance with the task and people should get the protected drinking water thereby enhancing the prestige of the government. 

The CM wanted supply of drinking water to the villages should be completed by this December and before that all the intake wells and water treatment plans should be completed to supply water to the people. Works on pumps should begin by September and by December cent percent works should be completed. He said since Mission Bhagiratha is a life and death question for the Telangana government, officials, public representatives and working agencies should work day and night to accomplish the task.

The CM held a high-level review meeting on the Mission Bhagiratha at Pragati Bhavan here on Thursday . The CM said that for the first time in the



country, this scheme is implemented at a cost of Rs 43,000 crore. Since this is the biggest challenge, he said he would visit the field sites. 

The CM also advised MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other public representatives to supervise the works in their segments and visit the work sites.

The CM suggested that all the works should be completed by December and safe drinking water should be given to all the villages as a new year's gift on January 1. Later after six months, all the works like laying the pipelines, construction of the water tanks, fixing of taps should be completed. He wanted water to be pumped from the intake wells through WTP . There may be initial hiccups, they should be overcome and solve all the issues that crop up during the execution of the work.

“We have prepared Mission Bhagiratha programme, keeping in the needs for the next 30 years. Water should be supplied to people in villages. If need be, increase the number of tanks and capacity of pipelines. For this, ministers and MLAs should have meeting with the officials and take decisions,“ the CM said.