Urban Mission Bhagiratha works reviewed

Hyderabad: Principal Secretary Municipal Administration Arvind Kumar today held a meeting with the public health engineers and took stock of the progress achieved in urban mission bhagiratha, AMRUT and TMDP works.

Arvind Kumar instructed the officials to fix timelines for completion of OHSRs and ensure that all the OHSRs should be completed and functional by the end of September this year. He reviewed with the engineers about the status of the works and also enquired if there are any land related issues. He said that under AMRUT an amount of Rs 1550 Crores was spent in 10 municipalities and corporations towards water supply schemes of which 85 per cent work is completed. Under the World Bank funded TMDP programme, works in Armoor, Manugur and Jammikunta are completed while those in Huzurabad, Kothagudem, Medak and Kollapur are in progress, he added.

The Principal Secretary informed the officials that he would tour the towns to personally supervise the progress of the works from the first week of next month and asked them to ensure substantial progress by that time. Engineer in Chief Dhan Singh and other officials attended the meeting. Later he held a meeting with GHMC officials and reviewed the progress of the road works taken up under the Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP).

GHMC Commissioner Dana Kishore, Additional Commissioners Advaith Singh, Sikta Patnaik, CEs Sridhar, Suresh Kumar and Ziayuddin and LB Nagar Zonal Commissioner Srinvas Reddy attended the meeting.