KCR takes stock of Kaleshwaram project progress, directs officials to fill up all barrages

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has directed irrigation officers to prepare venture-intelligent operational pointers and to fill up all barrages before summertime, after checking out the Kaleshwaram raise irrigation venture internet sites on Tuesday.

Expressing happiness around the venture progress and water being pumped into reservoirs/barrages, he instructed the officers worried to fill them all up.

On Tuesday, the CM, alongside with his wife Shobha, visited the Laxmi Barrage created at Medigadda and paid tributes to the Godavari waters.

“The Telangana farming neighborhood has confronted hardships for a long time. We experienced solved that once the Telangana State is formed, farmers ought to get enough water supply for two crops. We have strategised for the construction of a barrage at a level after rivers Godavari and Pranahita be part of so that a lot more water for a lot more time can be pumped,” he claimed.

In a assertion made after the web site check out, Rao claimed: “After a technological survey, it was made a decision to build a barrage at Medigadda level. We have believed that with sixteen.seventeen TMC (thousand million cubic feet) storage ability, if the barrage is created on a a hundred MT height, water can be pumped for 7 months in a yr. Design has progressed as planned. Pumping is underway with out any challenge.

“Arrangements are being made to supply water to Nizam Sagar from Kaleshwaram. If require be, water will be pumped to the Sriram Sagar venture from Kaleshwaram. The Kaleshwaram venture has redrawn the irrigation map of Telangana.”