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HYDERABAD: Amid talk of possible bypoll to Nalgonda Lok Sabha segment as the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is said to be considering this bypoll option to test waters to know about his government’s popularity among people, the state government has decided to expedite Mission Bhagiratha works to provide potable water to the fluoride-hit Devarakonda and Munugode Assembly constituencies in Nalgonda district by October end. KCR told officials concerned to supply purified water under Mission Bhagiratha to these villages.
Majority villages in Devarakonda and Munugode constituencies are worst affected areas of fluoride waters. There is no access to people in these villages for potable drinking water, despite HC order issued to the then government in the erstwhile united state to supply clean and fluoride-free drinking water to villages in Nalgonda district way back in 2001.
“I believe safe drinking water would be supplied to every household in the two constituencies by October end,” Energy minister G Jagadish Reddy said. Of this total amount, 50 per cent is borne by the Centre and the remaining 50 per cent is being borne by the state government.