A.P. CM lays stone for ₹456-crore Veligonda feeder canal project

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Officials explaining astir  the Veligonda passageway  task  to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu during his sojourn  to Dornal successful  Markapuram territory  connected  Wednesday.

Officials explaining astir the Veligonda passageway task to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu during his sojourn to Dornal successful Markapuram territory connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: KOMMURI SRINIVAS

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu laid the instauration chromatic for the Veligonda task feeder canal lining enactment to beryllium undertaken astatine a outgo of ₹456 crore astatine Gantavanipally successful Markapuram territory connected Wednesday. He visited Yerragondapalem constituency successful Markapuram for the archetypal clip aft enactment of the caller district.

Mr. Naidu, on with farmers Ammireddy Venkateswara Reddy and Suravaram Gandivira Reddy, inspected the feeder canal works. After examining the task model, helium spoke to the engineering officials successful antithetic areas of the task wherever the Veligonda passageway works are being done. He insisted that the works were completed wrong 14 weeks.

Addressing the nationalist astatine ‘Markapuram Zilla Kala, Veligondatho Jala Kala, Horticulture Rythula Jeevithallo Kalakala’ programme later, Mr. Naidu said, “Of the ₹9,081 crore required for this project, ₹5,451 crore has been spent connected its construction, ₹484 crore connected onshore acquisition and ₹184 crore connected renovation works.”

“We person planned to implicit this task successful 2 phases. Over ₹2,540 crore indispensable beryllium spent to implicit the works. In the past 20 months, we person spent ₹540 crore and the works are apace. The task volition dedicate it to the federation by the extremity of July, 2026,“ helium said.

“Last year, we concentrated connected the Handri-Neeva project, and this twelvemonth we are focusing connected Veligonda project. By the clip of Godavari Pushkaralu adjacent year, we volition implicit the Polavaram project,” helium said.

Published - February 25, 2026 08:49 p.m. IST

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