The Andhra Pradesh government has granted an administrative sanction worth Rs 3.55 billion to the Ongole Municipal Corporation (OMC) to resolve the water scarcity problem in the district under AMRUT 2.0. The OMC is planning to lay pipelines from the Raamateertham Reservoir (near Chimakurthy), and construct a total of 18 overhead water storage tanks at various locations to provide drinking water tap connections to households in the OMC area.