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The State Budget has projected to prioritise the completion of 37 ongoing schemes with an purpose to bring 1.16 lakh hectares of onshore nether irrigation. The projected works see 12 irrigation projects, 22 tank-filling schemes, and extension, repair, and modernisation projects that are nearing completion.
The Budget has further stated that 75 irrigation works amounting to ₹8,045 crore volition beryllium implemented successful the Krishna, Cauvery, Godavari, and different stream basins.
Describing the dismissal of petitions filed by Tamil Nadu by the Supreme Court with respect to the Mekedatu balancing reservoir task arsenic a “significant ineligible victory” for Karnataka, the Budget says that a revised Detailed Project Report (DPR) on with a connection for wood clearance volition beryllium submitted soon to the Centre.
It besides states that the remaining 18.73-km-long canal works successful the 2nd signifier of the Yettinahole Comprehensive Drinking Water Project volition beryllium completed shortly. Similarly, it says that the onshore acquisition process for expanding the tallness of Almatti Dam from 519.6 m to 524.256 m volition commence this year.
The Budget has reiterated that the replacement of 33 dilapidated gates of the Tungabhadra Dam with caller gates volition beryllium completed earlier the onset of monsoon. Efforts volition beryllium intensified to instrumentality a timely alternate strategy successful consultation with the neighbouring States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with the concurrence of the Tungabhadra Board, to lick the occupation of shortage successful retention of this reservoir owed to accumulation of silt, it says.
