Probe sought into Nandanavanam project works

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, DEC. 9. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded an inquiry into the planning and execution of the Nandanavanam project works which according to them "have not served the purpose for which they were taken up".

Making this demand after a visit to the Nandanavanam project work site, the BJP floor leader in the Assembly, Mr. N. Indrasena Reddy, and the deputy leader, Dr.K.Laxman, wanted the Government to identify the persons responsible for the faulty execution of the works.

These works including the canal, which was originally intended to divert the overflowing water in the riverbed, now appeared to be abandoned and the canal had now become an obstruction to the flow of sewerage besides becoming a breeding ground for mosquitoes, they said.

Mr. Reddy claimed that only a few families had been affected by the Musi floods and the project had been shifted to Karmanghat, defeating the very purpose of Nandanavanam. He alleged that "illegal persons" and those with access to officials were accommodated at Karmanghat, where crores of rupees had been spent by the district administration on provision of facilities.

He demanded an inquiry into the dumping of debris on the Musi banks, expressing surprise why in the first place it was being done. If the purpose was to lay a road en route to Nagole and linking it to the Warangal highway, as proposed by him in 1983, the debris dumping and raising the ground level were not the solutions.

The BJP leader faulted the administration for rendering waste the pipelines that carry the industrial wastes and effluents from Sanathnagar, Balanagar and other areas via Amberpet. Because of the closure of the pipelines vents at several places the pipelines were obstructing easy flow of sewerage and effluents. The closed vents had also become a cause for the September floods strengthening the suspicion that the calamity was man-made.

Mr. Reddy while pressing for bringing the Krishna waters to meet the city's drinking water needs expressed doubts about the official estimate of the required expenditure at Rs. 3,000 crores. The Government could utilise the existing infrastructure and initially lay one pipeline for carrying about 2.5 tmc of the Krishna waters. Another pipeline could be laid later. His estimate was only Rs.1,000 crores -- Rs.600 crores for laying pipelines and Rs.400 crores for repairing the existing pipes.

He emphasised that bringing the Krishna waters was necessary both from the point of view of the city remaining beautiful and meeting the drinking water needs of the residents.

Dr.Laxman criticised the administration for failing to make public the survey report on the damage to houses following the city floods and the proposed demolition of the dwellings in case similar calamities occurred in future.

Although the officials had promised at the last Hyderabad District Development Review Committee (DDRC) to release the report within days, they had failed to do so. Making the report public was necessary to dispel fears among the people living in the flood-affected and adjoining areas, he said.

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