Deputy Commissioner B. Susheela has directed the officials of government departments concerned to take all possible initiatives ahead of summer itself to tackle drinking water crisis and ensure that no single village suffers due to lack of drinking water during summer.
She was chairing a meeting of officials in Yadgir on Thursday to discuss the precautionary measures to be taken to address possible drinking water problem during summer.
Dr. Susheela said that officials of the Revenue, the Rural Drinking water, the Agriculture, the Horticulture departments, tahsildars and taluk executive officers of the respective taluks should ensure coordination and provide drinking water for human beings and animals and fodder for livestock, as out of the six taluks in the district, three have been declared as severely drought-hit, while the remaining three have been declared a moderately drought-hit.
