Revival of lakes on priority list for Sainikpuri residents

Hyderabad: When contesting candidates met them, on Friday, Sanikpuri residents made their demands be heard, loud and clear. Their key issues: Reopening of cantonment roads, revival and beautification of lakes, road widening and repair, removal of encroachments, wet waste management among others.
The ward — Division 1 of Kapra — spread over more than 50 square km has about 50,000 voters living in 105 colonies.Members of 15 resident welfare associations (RWA) here gathered for the session with candidates running for the post of corporator. “The condition of roads is extremely poor in many of these colonies. Worse, while roads like the one leading from sixth avenue towards Kandiguda has been repaired partially, it continues to be in bad shape. Not just that, many lanes still don’t have proper street lights, which we want the political leaders to fix on war footing,” said KS Nair, president of the Saipuri Colony RWA.
The meeting was convened by the Federation of Northeastern Colonies of Secunderabad (Green Sainikpuri). Apart from roads, the RWAs unanimously demanded that a storm water drain be laid from CDM to Kapra lake and from Netaji Nagar to Kapra lake. Not just that, residents also demanded the candidates in the fray assure ti increase the number of inlets into the lake.
“We put down all issues and got signatures on bond paper as assurance, from both our TRS and Congress candidates. They have promised to look into the civic issues ailing our ward,” said Chandra Sekhar, member, Federation of Northeastern Colonies of Secunderabad .