TUDA takes up work to shift drinking water pipeline in Tirupati

The Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) on Thursday took up the pending works of the Telugu Ganga drinking water pipeline, a project that remained untouched for long time. The drinking water pipeline, measuring 2.9 km in length and 150 feet in width, runs underground from the RTO office in Mangalam southwards up to Renigunta road and further to Daminedu, abutting the Chennai highway.

As the decades-old pipeline was laid in a zigzag manner, it needed to be shifted to facilitate the laying of a road to ensure planned development of the city. Even the TTD had allotted ₹19.5 crore for the road project in 2019, but the e shifting of the pipeline continued to be a bottleneck.