GO111-DNR-25May23.pdf

GO111: Water and Environment
Development with Sustainability
Dr. Narasimha Reddy Donthi
Independent Public Policy Expert

S.NoDetail Himayathsagar Osmansagar
1 Date of construction 1927 1920
2 Catchment area sq.km 1,358.53 746.73
3 Length of basin km 52.92 50.49
4 Total stream length in km 2,592.96 1,510.46
5 Water spread area in sq.km 19.6 24.78
6 Total storage capacity TMC2.96 3.9
7 No. of FTL stones 530 490
E-mail: nreddy.donthi22@gmail.com

GO Department Date Details
G.O. Ms.No. 50
Municipal
Administration
28th
January,
1989
protect hydrological
regime
G.O.Ms.No.192
Municipal
Administration
31st
March,
1994 prevention of pollution
G.O.Ms.No.111
Municipal
Administration
8th March,
1996 Zonal regulations

G.O.Rt.No.952
Municipal
Administration
29th
November,
2005
EPTRI appointment as
Technical Committee
Memo No.261/
1 / 2006
16th July,
2007
Downstream
restrictions
Govt Memo
No.14046 /
2007
12th
October,
2007
Memo to HUDA on
Pragati Resorts and
other violations

G.O. Rt.No.828 Revenue
7th August,
2008
Exemption at Cherlaguda
(Shamshabad) for education
purpose for Institute of
Management Technology,
Ghaziabad
G.O.
Rt.No.1113
Municipal
Administration
7th August,
2009
Relaxation of HADA zoning
regulations
G.O.Ms.No.293
Municipal
Administration
26th July,
2011 Changing land use in Janwada

Status of Reservoirs
• Rainfall converting to the GW recharge is nearly 22% (2014)
• Dry up completely by 2036 owing to reduced inflows and increasing
urbanization (2004 study predicted)
• Net decrease of 43% and 63% is predicted to take place at
Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar.
• The overall WQI value of 48.24 for Himayathsagar lake: slightly poor
• domestic waste water, agriculture/horticulture runoff, laboratory
waste from educational institutes, solid waste disposal, vegetation
in the lake and human activities

% Streamflow reduction
Himayatsagar Osmanasagar
1995-2010 -10.25 -9.27
2011-2040 -19.94 -38.43
2014-2070 -9.13 -20.22
2071-2098 -13.64 -23.02

44,551
197,652
92,725
25,986 27,713
-
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
Total HHs Total Population Total Workers Cultivators Agricultural Labour
79 village Census 2011

-
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
Land Use reporting Area Forests Not available for
cultivation
Other uncultivated land
excluding fallow land
Fallow land Net area Sown Cropped area area sown more than once
RR Land Use Statistics
2018-19 2014-15 1998-99

Questions related to catchment area of 2,076 sq.km?
• Land use pattern in 1989, 1996, 2014 and 2022
• Agriculture zone
• Commercial zone
• Biodiversity zone
• Status of the land bought by Nizam around these lakes
• Per capita land ownership

Committee's List
S. P. Shorey 1993
First Report 1994
Second Report 1995
Official Committee 2005
Technical Committee (EPTRI) 2006
Technical Committee (APPCB) 2007
IAS Officers Committee 2016
Somesh Kumar Committee 2022

Firangi Nala and Bulkapur Nala
Firangi nala was constructed to take surplus water from catchment area of Himayatsagar
-upto Ibrahimpatnam Pedda cheruvu
- Through Shamshabad
Bulkapur Nala was also constructed to take surplus water from catchment area of Osmansagar to Hussainsagar

Destruction of watershed areas
Stone crushing units
Road construction and widening
Biodiversity destruction
Hillock removal
Natural water channels destruction (encroachment,
conversion, sand mining, etc)
Concretisation
Industrial zone establishment

Downstream of twin reservoirs-1
Restrictions were imposed (Memo
No.261/11/2006 dt.16th July, 2007)
86 villages were listed
Upto to 500 m from FTL/ bund no development
Between 500 to 1000 m, G+2 only
100 feet distance from raw water channel
No polluting industries (68 categories only)
 30 green belt around existing surplus channels

30 m buffer zone along reserve forests and
heritage structures
HUDA as nodal agency to enforce, punish
violators and develop green belt
HMWSSB will prepare comprehensive integrated
underground drainage system, monitor water
quality and furnish periodical reports to nodal
agency E-mail: nreddy.donthi22@gmail.com

Topography of bunds shall not be changed
Detailed drainage and sewerage plan for area, 10
km distance from lakes
No new industry with coal/ furnace oil as fuel
Minimise paved area
Ground water use shall be discouraged
Proper rainwater harvesting structures

Violations
• Construction of Institute of Management Technology,
Ghaziabad in Sy No. 38 of Cherlaguda, (V),Shamsabad
Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, 2009 (G.O.Rt. No. 1113)
• Land use conversions – conservation to residential
• Alienation of Government land to an extent of 327.44
acres of Budvel Village, Rajendranagar Mandal and
Kismathpur & Himayathsagar villages of Gandipet
Mandal, Ranga Reddy District in favour of TSIIC, 2018

Proposals
Diversion works for supplementing Krishna water joint
reservoirs from Mir-Alam Reservoir, 2016
 Green city
 Diversion of Konda Pochamma sagar water
 22 STPs
 Minimum plot area – 5 acres
 Distance of 100 metres from water body, 50 metres from
nala
 Buffer zone of 500 metres
 No construction in FTL

Karnataka actions-1
On 11th April 2012, a Division Bench of the
Karnataka High Court issued a final order
PIL by ESG (WP 817/2008)
an end to the policy of privatisation of lakes,
A public participation scheme that would assist
protection and rehabilitation of lakes (and their
canal networks), in Bangalore and across
Karnataka.

Karnataka actions-2
 Comprehensive Guidelines for lake protection and
rehabilitation were developed
 A Special Law to Protect Lakes of Karnataka
 Draft law
 Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority Act
and the Karnataka Tank Conservation and Development Act
were enacted.
 Finally The Karnataka Tank Conservation And Development
Authority And Certain Other Law (Amendment) Act, 2018.

Recommendations
•GO111 needs to be reviewed. It should not scrapped. It has gained
relevance, and not redundancy.
• A new comprehensive regulation Act that protects the hydrological
regime, while covering the entire 2,076 Sq. Km catchment areas of
Himayathsagar and Osmansagar, is required.
• A special Regulatory body has to be established, with other line
departments, experts and CSO representatives as members.
•It should have the objective of restoring the services of the twin
reservoirs, namely providing drinking water, rainwater harvesting, micro
climate control and prevention of floods.

Recommendations
• Assessment of land use, in catchment area and downstream areas, has to be
done by this Authority. This assessment should be used a decision-making tool
to achieve the basic objectives of protection, conservation and augmentation.
• Strict norms of land use zoning have to be applied in 86 Downstream villages/
settlements/ urban areas, to protect raw water channels.
• Encroachments with FTL area of both reservoirs have to be removed
summarily.
• Remove all hydrological barriers in the catchment area that have been or have
the potential to contaminate inflows and/or reduce inflows into reservoirs.

Recommendations
• Undertake water and soil conservation activities in the catchment areas.
• Develop special zones within catchment area to segregate village development
from conservation zone
• Encourage and incentivise natural farming in the catchment area, agroforestry
and biodiversity conservation, right from Ananthagiri hills.
• A comprehensive economic package has to be developed for 84 villages that
caters to education, livelihood, health and well-being of the most vulnerable
citizens, especially landless and disadvantaged sections.
• (Grama Jyothi Pranalikalu) Village development plans, by applying Sustainable
Development Goals, have to be developed for 84 villages in the catchment area.

Recommendations
•Complete mini STPs planned in upcoming urban clusters.
•Sewerage treatment plants have to be mandatory for all existing local
bodies, residential areas and commercial complexes, with 100 percent
recycling condition.
•Close down Rakamcherla industrial park, established as a site for red
category industries including steel re-rolling and other categories.
•Violations and violators have to be punished severely, including officials
who display neglect, nepotism and dereliction of duty.

Recommendations
•HMDA Master Plan 2012 should be revamped. A new Master Plan should
have decentralised growth and development plans. These plans should be
based on Sustainable Development Goals, and should respond to
recommendations by IPCC reports on climate crisis.

Thank you
Email: nreddy.donthi22@gmail.com

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