Ranga Reddy district draws up plan to tackle drinking water scarcity.
According to the data, four mandals registered deficit rainfall while 14 mandals received normal rainfall and four mandals registered excess rainfall.
Open Hyderabad: The Ranga Reddy district administration has drawn up an action plan to meet the drinking water requirements for summer.
Proposals have been sent to the State government requesting sanction of Rs 8.96 crore to ensure adequate water supply to residential colonies along the city suburbs and villages in the district.
District Collector M Raghunandan Rao is scheduled to meet Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao during the district Collector’s conference to be held here on April 10, on issues related to water supply.
Officials have identified 639 villages in 22 mandals as affected and water will be supplied either through tankers or water drawn from hired borewells.
At present, water is being supplied to 75 villages and 32 habitations in the district.
According to the data, four mandals registered deficit rainfall while 14 mandals received normal rainfall and four mandals registered excess rainfall.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is supplying water to villages in Maheswaram, Kandukur, Ibrahimpatnam and Shankarpally apart from areas on the city suburbs and colonies that have come up inside the ORR radius.
A senior official said the water board prepared proposals of over Rs 4.65 crore to meet the drinking water needs in villages and colonies in parts of Shamshabad and Rajendranagar areas, Hayathnagar and Saroornagar under the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF).