HYDRAA To Protect Water Bodies: Sridhar Babu

All waterbodies are directly connected with our survival and their destruction will will lead to environmental calamity, said IT and industries minister D. Sridhar Babu on Friday while addressing the 2nd GRIHA regional conclave on the theme of ‘Accelerating Climate Action in the Built Environment. GRIHA stands for Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment, which is a rating tool that assesses the performance of the buildings against nationally acceptable benchmarks.

Sridhar Babu said all the developed and developing nations have recognised that the current pace of haphazard growth was affecting nature. People and governments need to work collectively to check the environmental damage. “Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy formed the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring Protection Agency (HYDRAA) to preserve the water bodies, including the tanks, ponds,



streams and rivers. The encroachment of water bodies is leading to frequent floods. If ignored, it would pose a major problem in the coming days,” he explained.

The minister said the proposed Future City would be a zero-carbon city with state-of-the-art facilities and government had requested Mahindra University to provide technical cooperation to help preserve the environment. Bengaluru Metro Rail director D. Radhakrishna Reddy said they had been fulfilling all the power requirements by generating 20 MW of solar power across all the metro stations. On the occasion, Sridhar Babu released the GRIHA publication Mindful Impressions Targeting 2070 Workforce, a compilation of sustainable initiatives undertaken by the schools of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. GRIHA representatives Sanjay Seth and Shabana Bassi also spoke.