Public awareness campaign planned against open urination from first week of February
- Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) will soon lay water and sewage pipelines at Bholakpur slum in Musheerabad constituency, notorious for its water contamination issues.
- GHMC Commissioner and Managing Director of the water board M. Dana Kishore informed this during a press conference and said tenders would soon be called for the works costing close to Rs.20 crore.
- Bholakpur was known for contamination between water and sewage lines, resulting in deaths on multiple occasions.
- The press conference was organised in view of the city being conferred ODF++ (Open Defecation Free Plus Plus) status by the Swachh Bharat Mission in the run up to the Swachh Survekshan rankings.
- With this, Hyderabad has become the only Metro city with ODF++ status, and shared the status with only two other cities, Indore and Chandigarh.
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