Overview

• Revanth Reddy and Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar toured Ameerpet, Buddhanagar, Maitrivanam and Gangubai Bastikunta today to assess monsoon damage firsthand.
• At Buddhanagar, officials were ordered to lower and widen a drainage canal that had been built above street level and narrowed by encroachments.
• In Gangubai Bastikunta, the chief minister ordered a permanent special trunk line to prevent illegal filling and parking from obstructing waterways.
• Prabhakar urged GHMC, HYDRAA and the Hyderabad water board to adopt rainwater harvesting as a civic duty and to draft a comprehensive citywide water-management plan.
• State agencies including GHMC, HMWS&SB and HYDRAA have been mobilized under stringent oversight to execute lasting infrastructure fixes and break the cycle of flooding.