Gajwel is the VIP constituency . It is Telangana’s Kuppam. While Kuppam is the pocket borough of Naidu, AP CM, Gajwel is represented by Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Whatever KCR promises to the constituency, officials see this as the inviolable supreme order. The constituency will soon become the state’s first constituency to have every household connected with a separate water connection. Officials working overtime to ensure that the target is not missed at any cost by April 30, 2016. The constituency will have the distinction of being the first constituency to get the water from the Telangana water grid project. From April 30, all the households will start getting the safe drinking water. One must congratulate the 3,000 households in Gajwel which are going to get water connection as part of the Water Grid project. Water Grid is massive project, meant to supply drinking water to entire Telangana outside Hyderabad, with 1.25 lakh km-long pipeline, designed by Rural Water Supply department engineers and vetted by WAPCOS. The project is being implemented to provide drinking water through domestic taps to each and every household in the state by 2018.
The fluoride-hit areas will get water only in the second phase. According to Panchayat Raj minister K T Ramarao, the fluoride-hit areas of Nalgonda and some other habitats that are close to water sources in Medchal in Ranga Reddy, Khammam and Mahbubnagar districts will get drinking water through taps in the second phase covering 24,500 households within 1.5 years. By this it is clear that the CM constituency has got the primacy over the constituencies which are not so lucky to be represented by the VIPs.
Because of the VIP status of the constituency all senior officials making a bee line to the constituency, visiting the villages, reviewing the program, interacting with the people. Yesterday, SP Singh, special chief secretary, panchayat Raj, paid personal visit along with officials of the department to Ahammadipur, the village adopted by the Chief Minister and examined the ongoing water grid works.
He reassured the villagers that drinking water would be supplied for each household in Gajwel Assembly constituency limits by the end of April 30 as promised by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The special chief secretary also visited Kondapaka, Komatibanda Gutta and interacted with village committee members and officers.
He was accompanied by RWS engineer-in-chief B. Surender Reddy, Swachh Bharat Mission project director Ramulu Naik, Water Grid SE Vijaya Prakash, RWS SE J Chakravarthi and others. It is rare for a special chief secretary rank officer and top brass of panchayat raj department visiting villages and reassuring the villagers everyday about the on-time completion of the project.
