Mir Alam beautification works to be fast-tracked

Rajendranagar: Zonal Commissioner (Charminar) N Samrat Ashok, along with other GHMC officials, on Friday visited Mir Alam Park being developed on the banks of Mir Alam Lake, close to Kishanbagh road. They took stock of the works being carried out to promote walkway and cycle track around the water body.

The ZC was accompanied by officials including Additional Commissioner (Lakes) and Zonal Commissioner (Serilingampally) Hari Chandana, Superintending Engineer (Irrigation Department) Bheem Prasad, Executive Engineer Mohd Khurshid Ahmed, AEs and DEEs of Irrigation Department. He inspected the entire stretch being developed as walkway around the lake.

Unhappy with the garbage being thrown out by the locals on the stretch, Hari Chandana took to task the officials concerned and instructed them to take up measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of the issue again.

The GHMC has proposed to develop Walkway and Cycle Track around the park beside a 6.5-km sewerage diversion canal with an outlay of several crore rupees under Mission Kakatiya. The idea was mooted several years ago by the GHMC as a better way to protect the historic water body from getting polluted and being encroached. Beside this, few small parks would also being developed around the water body to provide a blissful environment to the visitors.

In order to protect the water body from pollution, a diversion canal is being constructed for which the works are in process at various points over the lake. The rudimentary works, that picked up pace from September this year, is gradually taking shape from Indranagar (Hassan Nagar) side encompassing the entire water body.

According to officials, total 6.5 kilometres of long diversion canal around the lake is being constructed with an outlay of about Rs 7 Crores. With this, the sewerage inflow into the water body from surrounding areas will be diverted to diversion canal thereby move into Sewerage Treatment Plant (STPs) set up on the banks of the lake.

According to officials, the entire Mir Alam beautification project was estimated to Rs 40 crore and divided into Part-A and Part-B simultaneously. While Part-A carries only construction of diversion canal around the lake, the Part-B of the project, deals with promoting walkway, cycle track, railing around the water body and few other amenities for the visitors.