Mir Alam Tank:
The Telangana state government will build a bridge spanning 2.5 km across the Mir Alam Tank in Hyderabad and develop three island zones there in the style of Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
- It is a freshwater tank in Hyderabad, Telangana, located in the southern part of the Musi river.
- It covers an area of approximately 260 acres and has a capacity of 21 million cubic meters of water.
- The tank is fed by several streams and springs that flow down from the nearby hills.
- It was the primary source of drinking water for Hyderabad before the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs were built by the last Nizam of Hyderabad in 1913-25.
- The tank was named after Mir Alam Bahadur, the Prime Minister of Hyderabad during Asaf Jah III’s reign, the third Nizam of Hyderabad state.
- Mir Alam Bahadur is believed to have laid the foundation for the tank in 1804, which was then completed in a period of two years by
- It was built by a French engineering company comprising 21 semicircular arches for a total area of approximately one mile.
- It was reportedly planned by Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, the Frenchman to whom Hyderabad’s Raymond Tomb has been dedicated.
