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Drinking water plant for girijans mired in apathy
The non-completion of the Rs.78-crore worth drinking water plant taken up by the earlier Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government in the year 2009 in the Utnoor Agency areas of Utnoor, Narnoor, Jainoor, Sirpur, Indravelli and Keramori mandals to provide pure drinking water to the tribal community is causing lot of hardships to them.
Utnoor: The non-completion of the Rs.78-crore worth drinking water plant taken up by the earlier Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government in the year 2009 in the Utnoor Agency areas of Utnoor, Narnoor, Jainoor, Sirpur, Indravelli and Keramori mandals to provide pure drinking water to the tribal community is causing lot of hardships to them.
The plant’s work, launched in 2010, should have been completed in two years. However, it is still pending allegedly because of lack proper supervision of officials and negligence of the government.
The work was taken up with the aim of providing protected drinking water to about 250 villages in Utnoor, Narnoor, Sirpur-U, Indravelli and Keramori mandals.
An intake well was constructed near Dhanora in Keramori mandal in Nizamabad district for filtering water with the objective of providing 40 litres to each person, as per the initial announcement of the government.
The delay in completion of the plant is worrying the residents of the Agency areas. They are angry with the administration for this, as the government has been extending the deadline.
The work was first stopped because of non-clearance of the Forest department’s permission and later for some other reason.
However, it was speeded up in 2014, with the construction of service balancing reservoirs at Hatti Dhanora (Keramori mandal), Rasimetta (Jainoor), Hadi Hatnoor(Naroor) and in Utnoor mandals.
Eighty-five per cent of the work, including that of the plant, has been completed but the remaining 15 % is still pending.
At present, only 400-km of pipeline construction work is still pending. Nobody is sure how much time this will take.
As a result, the availability of water has become doubtful, although Rs.40 crore seems to have been spent only for the benefit of ten villages, whereas 250 villages have to be covered.
Pipeline work in other villages is yet to begin. It is unlikely to be finished within the stipulated fixed by the government.
Residents of many villages in the Agency areas are facing hardship to the non-availability of pure drinking water as many schemes have become non-functional.
They have to bear with severe problems in getting even small quantities of water. Girijans in these villages want the government to at least ensure the completion of the pending pipeline work now so that safe drinking water is available to the needy residents in the coming summer months.
By: Madavi Manik Rao
