SECUNDERABAD: Under pressure from resident welfare associations (RWAs), political parties and civil societies, Secunderabad Cantonment Board on Tuesday withdrew an order on levying a fee on residents for extracting groundwater from borewells. A resolution to this effect was passed unanimously by the members of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board on Tuesday.
SCB has received as many as 55 objections from different stakeholders. “Residents of the Secunderabad Cantonment are being exempted from installation of flow water meters,” SCB chief executive officer (CEO) D Madhukar Naik said after the meeting.
Meanwhile, SCB also passed another resolution on preparing bylaws for water supply network in the Cantonment. SCB also thanked ministry of defence (MoD) for issuing work permission orders on defence and cantonment land to build two elevated skyways in Cantonment limits.
SCB requested MoD to deposit 331 crore as they have to part with their 32-acre land for the proposed twin skyways. A working women’s hostel (Sakhi Nivas) with 60 beds at Mudfort would be inaugurated on March 7. “Of 60 beds, 10 beds will be allotted to ‘veer naris’ (war widows) at the new working women hostel,” the CEO said.
