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Tungabhadra Irrigation Consultative Committee (ICC) Chairman and Koppal territory in-charge Minister Shivraj S. Tangadagi connected Saturday directed officials to statesman installation of caller crest gates astatine the Tungabhadra reservoir connected December 20 and guarantee that the full task was completed wrong the stipulated timeline.
Chairing a reappraisal gathering with Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd. (KNNL) engineers and officials of the Tungabhadra Board successful Munirabad, the Minister said that the reservoir was the lifeline for lakhs of farmers successful the region, and replacing each 33 ageing crest gates was an urgent necessity. A tender worthy ₹52 crore had already been awarded for the project, helium said.
Mr. Tangadagi instructed the contractor to instantly statesman dismantling the existing gates and different preparatory works and signifier astatine slightest 2 dedicated teams to fast-track execution. “All arrangements indispensable beryllium successful spot truthful that installation begins connected December 20. The enactment indispensable beryllium completed wrong the designated docket without fail,” helium said.
The Minister reminded officials that farmers had voluntarily foregone h2o for the 2nd harvest this twelvemonth and the authorities should uphold its committedness to regenerate each 33 gates, including the 19th gross (which was washed distant successful a existent precocious connected August 10 past year).
“Since h2o volition statesman to capable the reservoir again by June 2026 with the onset of monsoon, the task indispensable beryllium afloat completed by May to debar immoderate disruption to irrigation. The authorities indispensable guarantee that drinking h2o proviso to towns and villages remains unaffected during the summer,” helium said directing the officials acrophobic to guarantee that the worksite should stay strictly retired of bounds for the wide nationalist and callled for round-the-clock monitoring.
Officials from the Munirabad Tungabhadra Project Circle and the TB Board briefed the Minister that the reservoir has truthful acold utilised 23 tmcft of h2o this h2o year. They reported that the dam held 66.286 tmcft of h2o astatine existent reservoir level of 1,621.72 ft against the full capableness of 105.788 tmcft astatine afloat reservoir level (FRL) of 1,633 ft. They noted that the h2o level should beryllium brought down to 1,613 ft to instrumentality up the gate-installation work. They told the gathering that the remaining 9 ft of h2o would beryllium utilised for irrigation and drinking earlier enactment begins.
Representatives from M Hardware Tools & Machinery Project Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, the contracting company, informed the gathering that they had antecedently installed 124 crest gates of akin dimensions astatine Parag Barrage successful West Bengal, and successfully executed gross replacement projects astatine KRS and Narayanpur dams. They said installation astatine Tungabhadra would besides beryllium carried retired by 3 teams — 1 each connected the left, close and cardinal sections of the dam — enabling the installation of up to six gates per month.
Executive Engineers Preeti Pattar (Munirabad Central Division), Chandrashekhar (TB Board), M.S. Godekar (Vaddarahatti Division), elder method unit Yallappa, Vinayak B., Basappa Janakar, Lingaraj and Raghavendra, and adjunct engineers Dharamraj, Huliraj and Kiran attended the meeting.
