HYDERABAD: With an eye on the GHMC elections scheduled for November this year, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday convened a meeting with the GHMC officials headed by commissioner Somesh Kumar and directed them to take up the task of combating water and drainage problems of the city on a war footing.
In an interactive session held at his office chamber at the Secretariat, the CM asked officials about the preparedness for the rainy season ahead. He asked them to prepare a short term strategy to tackle inundation of low lying areas, desilting of nalas, water stagnation points, provision of supply of quality drinking water and also to plan long term strategy simultaneously.
He further directed them to prepare a comprehensive master plan to make Hyderabad a slum-free city by providing two-bed room housing facility to slum dwellers and directed to take up the pilot project immediately.
"The chief minister is very particular about conserving the brand image of Hyderabad. Therefore, he wants to promote it as a world-class city. He conveyed the same to the GHMC officials," deputy chief minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, who attended the meeting, told TOI. Ministers T Padma Rao and Naini Narasimha Reddy, who represent Greater Hyderabad, were also present in the meeting.
"The CM has directed the officials to make Hyderabad a world-class city and develop civic Infrastructure keeping in view of the development of the city in the year 2050 in order to attract more IT companies by providing better transport facilities," said Somesh Kumar. KCR asked the GHMC officials to develop dumping yards in a scientific way in and around Hyderabad by acquiring government land at a distant location from habitats.
Responding to the officials' submission of existing 265 vacancies in the engineering department of GHMC, the CM told them not to wait for establishment of Public Service Commission and to take up the appointments of engineers by engaging an efficient agency.
While the allocation of employees between Telangana and Seemandhra is still a bone of contention, KCR met a delegation of Telangana employees led by Mahbubnagar MLA V Srinivas Goud and received their complaints about the Seemandhra employees producing fake nativity certificates in a bid to continue with the Telangana state. Srinivas Goud said the delegation had brought more than 1500 cases of the Seemandhra employees producing alleged bogus domicile credentials to the notice of the CM.
Meanwhile, since the ministers have not yet been given the office chambers in the Secretariat, none of them took charge on Tuesday. Minister for finance and civil supplies Etela Rajender met the civil supply officials informally and directed them to make arrangements to purchase the discolured paddy due to the untimely rains recently. Rajender will take charge as the finance minister on Wednesday and will occupy office chamber at D block of the Secretariat.
In an interactive session held at his office chamber at the Secretariat, the CM asked officials about the preparedness for the rainy season ahead. He asked them to prepare a short term strategy to tackle inundation of low lying areas, desilting of nalas, water stagnation points, provision of supply of quality drinking water and also to plan long term strategy simultaneously.
He further directed them to prepare a comprehensive master plan to make Hyderabad a slum-free city by providing two-bed room housing facility to slum dwellers and directed to take up the pilot project immediately.
"The chief minister is very particular about conserving the brand image of Hyderabad. Therefore, he wants to promote it as a world-class city. He conveyed the same to the GHMC officials," deputy chief minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, who attended the meeting, told TOI. Ministers T Padma Rao and Naini Narasimha Reddy, who represent Greater Hyderabad, were also present in the meeting.
"The CM has directed the officials to make Hyderabad a world-class city and develop civic Infrastructure keeping in view of the development of the city in the year 2050 in order to attract more IT companies by providing better transport facilities," said Somesh Kumar. KCR asked the GHMC officials to develop dumping yards in a scientific way in and around Hyderabad by acquiring government land at a distant location from habitats.
Responding to the officials' submission of existing 265 vacancies in the engineering department of GHMC, the CM told them not to wait for establishment of Public Service Commission and to take up the appointments of engineers by engaging an efficient agency.
While the allocation of employees between Telangana and Seemandhra is still a bone of contention, KCR met a delegation of Telangana employees led by Mahbubnagar MLA V Srinivas Goud and received their complaints about the Seemandhra employees producing fake nativity certificates in a bid to continue with the Telangana state. Srinivas Goud said the delegation had brought more than 1500 cases of the Seemandhra employees producing alleged bogus domicile credentials to the notice of the CM.
Meanwhile, since the ministers have not yet been given the office chambers in the Secretariat, none of them took charge on Tuesday. Minister for finance and civil supplies Etela Rajender met the civil supply officials informally and directed them to make arrangements to purchase the discolured paddy due to the untimely rains recently. Rajender will take charge as the finance minister on Wednesday and will occupy office chamber at D block of the Secretariat.
