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The Bhumi Puja for the operation of a span implicit the Pottepalem sluice spillway volition beryllium held connected January 5, 2026 (Monday), successful the beingness of Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, MLC and TDP territory president Beeda Ravichandra, and Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy. Once completed, the span volition fulfil the decades-old imagination of Nellore residents for hassle-free connectivity to the occidental parts of the district.
Water flows implicit the spillway of Nellore Cheruvu for astatine slightest 7 months a twelvemonth aft the monsoon, severely disrupting question connected the constrictive road. Two-wheelers are the worst affected, and vehicles sometimes look the hazard of being washed distant erstwhile the travel is abnormally high. The State authorities has sanctioned ₹4.85 crore for the bridge, which volition marque crossing the sluice safer and easier, benefitting the constituencies of Nellore Rural, Sarvepalli, Atmakur, Kovur, and Udayagiri.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that Mr. Sridhar Reddy had staged a ‘Jala Deeksha’ demanding the span erstwhile helium was successful the YSRCP, aft pursuing the task for respective years. After joining the TDP-led NDA and being re-elected successful 2024, helium personally took up the contented with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and secured administrative authorisation for the project.
TDP person Kotamreddy Giridhar Reddy connected Sunday inspected the arrangements astatine the venue on with Sri Vedagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam Chairman Indupur Achyut Reddy, Agricultural Market Committee Chairman Manubolu Sridhar Reddy, and Nellore Rural MLA bureau in-charge Datla Chakravardhan Reddy.
