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Source : The Hindu Date : 07.07.2009

MCN to felicitate SSC toppers

Staff Reporter

NELLORE: The Municipal Corporation of Nellore (MCN) will organise a programme on July 8 to felicitate the merit students of municipal high schools who secured over 500 marks in the SSC examinations, said Municipal Commissioner T.S.R. Anjaneyulu.

The felicitation programme would be held at Venkatagiri Raja’s College Grounds from 9 a.m. onwards.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, Nellore Member of Parliament Makapati Rajamohan Reddy, MLAs and MLCs will attend the programme, he said.

In all, 45 students scored more than 500 marks in the SSC examinations in the schools being run by the MCN.

Cash award

Each student would be presented a cash award of Rs.1,000, a gold medal and a merit certificate and children studying in the municipal schools would be invited for the function.

Instructions have been given to all the head masters and the officials concerned to make necessary arrangements for the programme, said the Commissioner.

Chief Minister’s Cup

The Minister will inaugurate the Chief Minister’s Cup (sports and games for municipal schools students) in the city on July 8, which coincides with the birthday of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy.

The events will be conducted in three categories and students from class 1 to 5 will participate in category-1, and those studying from class 6 to 8 will play in category-2 and those in class 9 and 10 will come under category-3. Games and sports will be conducted in 20 events and essay writing and elocution competitions will also be conducted from July 8 to August 12.

Competitions would be held separately for boys and girls and prizes for the winners would be distributed in the Independence Day celebrations on August 15, said Mr. Anjaneyulu.

Source : The Hindu Date : 07.07.2009

Acute water crisis stares at Karimnagar

K.M. Dayashankar

–Photo: K. M. Dayashankar

Alarming fall: The water level has depleted sharply in LMD reservoir in Karimnagar town causing concern to the municipal authorities.

KARIMNAGAR: The Karimnagar Municipal Corporation is likely to face drinking water problem with the depletion of water table in Lower Manair Dam (LMD) reservoir with the irrigation authorities releasing water from the reservoir to the neighbouring Warangal district through Kakatiya Canal for the past two days.

In order to meet the drinking water requirements of Warangal town, Minister for Major Irrigation Ponnala Laxmaiah instructed the authorities to release water from the SRSP reservoir and later from the LMD balancing reservoir to avoid water woes in Karimnagar town.

On the contrary, the irrigation authorities without releasing water from the SRSP to LMD, started releasing about 1,000 cusecs of water to Warangal from LMD reservoir.

Already, the water level in LMD reservoir reached 879.80 feet on Monday with storage capacity of 3 tmc. If the water level reaches 877 feet, the reservoir reaches dead storage with a capacity of only 2 tmc, thus causing inconvenience for the municipal authorities to lift water from the dead storage level to the filter beds.

Under this scenario, supplying water for domestic consumption becomes very difficult, say municipal authorities said.

TRS plea

TRS corporator S. Ravinder Singh said that people of Karimnagar town would suffer from acute drinking water shortage in spite of availability of reservoir as water would be supplied to Warangal.

He demanded the irrigation authorities to release water to the LMD reservoir from SRSP to meet the requirements of the town.

He also said that the municipal authorities would be forced to deploy on-line boosters to lift water from dead storage level, which would again be an extra burden on the corporation.

Meanwhile, Mayor D. Shankar said there would not be any problem as the irrigation authorities are closely monitoring the situation. He assured that the people of Karimnagar town would not have any water woes.

Meanwhile, the municipal officials claim that there is no shortage of water supply in the town.

However, several colonies on the outskirts are getting water once in four days and in slums, water is being supplied through tankers. Presently, the municipality is supplying 28 million litres per day in the town.