With several hundreds of new colonies coming up on the outskirts of Hyderabad, especially in new municipal corporations, municipalities and villages located between the outer ring road (ORR) and the GHMC limits, the state cabinet on Tuesday allocated Rs 1,200 crore for augmenting water supply Network to these new colonies.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will lay 2,000 km pipelines and construct nearly 100 small reservoirs for supplying drinking water to these colonies.
Official sources said the HMWS&SB had already completed works on the drinking water network at a cost of Rs 700 crore in phase I.