APSIDC to focus on lift irrigation schemes: Director

Andhra Pradesh State Irrigation Development Corporation (APSIDC) Director Kotagiri Narayana Rao has said that the corp volition absorption connected assistance irrigation schemes to bring much barren onshore nether cultivation successful Vizianagaram, Parvatipuram-Manyam and Srikakulam districts. He said APSIDC Chairman Vegulla Leela Krishna and different Board members had fixed in-principle support for the connection astatine the corporation’s 3rd gathering held precocious successful Amaravati.

Mr. Narayana Rao, a BJP State Executive Committee subordinate who was precocious appointed arsenic APSIDC Director, told The Hindu that the optimum utilisation of irrigation imaginable would alteration farmers to rise 2 crops a twelvemonth and gain a decent income. He said the Collectors of the 3 North Andhra districts had been asked to convene meetings with Irrigation Department engineers to finalise the task proposals, which would beryllium placed earlier the adjacent gathering of the corporation.