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The State authorities has reiterated its firmness to implicit the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) passageway task earlier December adjacent twelvemonth oregon January 2027.
The State Council of Ministers, which met present nether the chairmanship of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected Thursday deliberated astir the ways to instrumentality the task forward. Accordingly, it was decided to bash distant with the passageway boring instrumentality and follow caller exertion for drilling the remaining portion of the 44 km tunnel. The decision, according to Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, would not enforce immoderate further load connected the Government.
He said the passageway was conceived arsenic portion of efforts to divert 30 tmcft of Krishna h2o from Srisailam done gravity to Nalgonda territory to mitigate the perennial fluoride problem. Works connected the task were started arsenic portion of Jala Yagnam during the Congress authorities headed by precocious Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and 32 km of the 44 km passageway was completed by the Congress governments successful power.
The BRS government, which came to powerfulness aft 2014, lacked committedness to implicit the project, arsenic could beryllium seen from the namesake enactment done connected the SLBC task during its much than nine-year rule. “The past authorities completed small implicit 2 km passageway during its tenure,” helium said.
The Congress authorities which took implicit the reins successful December 2023 gave a propulsion to the SLBC works owing to its committedness to implicit the task successful the involvement of the radical of Nalgonda. The works, however, saw an unfortunate mishap successful the signifier of passageway illness claiming astir 12 lives. The authorities had decided to spell up with the works arsenic adjacent to 80 per cent of the funds earmarked for the task had already been spent.
The Minister said that the Cabinet had reviewed the advancement of works connected the 4 ace speciality hospitals nether operation astatine LB Nagar, Sanathnagar, Alwal and Warangal. It was accordingly decided to instrumentality steps to guarantee completion of each works on with equipping the hospitals with ace speciality infrastructure arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible.
The Cabinet approved dismantling the 62.5 MW unit, portion of the Ramagundam powerfulness plant.
