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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has sanctioned ₹13.4 crore for a LiDAR survey successful the delta portion to enactment modernisation and flood prevention efforts. At a reappraisal gathering connected Tuesday to measure advancement successful the Godavari Delta modernisation programme, Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu said the survey would beryllium completed without delay, aft which modernisation works would statesman to reconstruct the delta’s productivity. He added that nether the contiguous administration, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had already sanctioned ₹150 crore for installing caller gates astatine the Dowleswaram Barrage.
He said the authorities had taken decisive steps to revive the Godavari Delta and code long-standing issues related to floods and irrigation. The absorption is connected broad modernisation to guarantee effectual flood management, upgraded irrigation systems, and extortion of farmers’ livelihoods. The Minister directed the agencies acrophobic to hole a elaborate DPR by December, covering flood mitigation, repair of locks and gates, drainage desilting, and strengthening of weirs.
He criticised the erstwhile five-year YSRCP medication for failing to execute modernisation projects contempt having funds, and for leaving respective works incomplete. This negligence, helium said, caused terrible harm to the delta, led to harvest losses, and forced farmers to beryllium connected a 2nd harvest alternatively of the accustomed archetypal crop.
The gathering was attended by Irrigation Adviser M. Venkateswara Rao, ENC Narasimhamurthy, CE, SE and EEs of the Godavari Delta system, bureau representatives and different elder officials.
