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CPI State caput G. Eswaraiah has urged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to allocate capable funds for completion of the long-pending Chintalapudi Lift Irrigation Scheme and guarantee just compensation to the farmers and families displaced by onshore acquisition for the project.
In a missive addressed to the Chief Minister connected Sunday, Mr. Eswaraiah said the irrigation scheme, designed to assistance Godavari waters and supply irrigation and drinking h2o to the upland regions of the erstwhile West Godavari territory and parts of Eluru and NTR districts, remained incomplete contempt being launched astir 17 years ago.
He recalled that the task had been initiated successful 2008 during the tenure of erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy with an estimated outgo of ₹1,701 crore. After bifurcation of the State, the task was expanded successful 2017 nether the authorities led by Mr. Naidu to screen further ayacut successful the present-day NTR district.
The revised task envisages lifting 53.5 tmc ft of Godavari h2o to irrigate astir 4.8 lakh acres and supply drinking h2o to respective villages, with the outgo revised to ₹4,909 crore, helium said.
Mr. Eswaraiah expressed interest implicit declining groundwater levels successful respective mandals of Chintalapudi and Polavaram constituencies, forcing farmers to beryllium connected heavy borewells. He said delays successful onshore acquisition remained a large hurdle, with farmers demanding compensation based connected prevailing marketplace values alternatively than outdated rates.
Stressing that the task would beryllium a lifeline for the drought-prone upland areas, helium appealed to the authorities to expedite onshore acquisition, supply conscionable compensation to the affected families, and implicit the strategy wrong the time-frame announced by Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu.
