BJP seeks free water scheme in Cantt

SECUNDERABAD: The Secunderabad Cantonment BJP on Sunday urged chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to extend free water supply scheme to residents of Secunderabad Cantonment.

On Sunday, Cantonment BJP also held an hour-long protest with empty pots at Karkhana in Cantonment with over 300 protesters.

With the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) making arrangements to implement the new free water supply scheme for households consuming 20,000 litres water in GHMC and its periphery from January, the BJP has demanded the state government to instruct the municipal administration & urban development (MAUD) department to implement the same scheme in the Cantonment too.

Former SCB vice-president J Rama Krishna, who organised the protest, criticised the TRS government. He said that a plea seeking implementation of water tariff in Cantonment areas on a par with GHMC areas has been ignored by the state government for the past five years. “In the GHMC areas, the water board collects Rs 7 per kilo litre whereas in Cantonment areas, Rs 13.60 per kilo litre is collected,” he said.