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The three-day sojourn of a squad of overseas experts to the Polavaram irrigation task concluded connected Wednesday, pursuing extended tract inspections and elaborate method reappraisal meetings.
The experts would clasp a follow-up gathering with Polavaram Project Authority Chief Engineer M. Ramesh Kumar successful Rajamahendravaram connected Thursday, and were scheduled to conscionable the Polavaram Authority’s CEO successful New Delhi connected Friday.
The visiting experts, Sean Hinchberger, David B. Paul, and Gianfranco De Cicco, were accompanied by officials from the Central Water Commission, including Chief Engineer Sarabjit Singh Bakshi, Manish Rathore, Gaurav Tiwari, and Hemant Gautam, and representatives from the Central Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS), Manish Gupta and Ravi Agarwal.
Senior officials from the Polavaram Project Authority, including Member-Secretary M. Raghuram, Director K. Shankar, Chief Engineer M. Ramesh Kumar, and NIRM Director Ajay Kumar Naitanil, participated.
Over the 3 days, the squad conducted astir 9 hours of field-level inspections covering Gap-1, Gap-2, D-Hill, G-Hill, upstream and downstream portions of the main dam, the diaphragm partition (D-wall), dewatering channel, rockfill and clay stockpiles, and ungraded strengthening works astatine Main Dam Gap-1. This was followed by astir 12 hours of in-depth reappraisal meetings.
The reappraisal meetings during the archetypal 2 days were chaired by Mr. Bakshi, portion the last day’s gathering was chaired by Mr. Ramesh Kumar.
Andhra Pradesh Government Irrigation Adviser M. Venkateswara Rao, Engineer-in-Chief K. Narasimhamurthy, Superintending Engineer R. Ramachandra Rao, and representatives of the executing agency, MEIL, including General Manager A. Gangadhar and Deputy General Manager Murali Pammi, were contiguous during inspections and discussions, addressing queries raised by the experts.
On the last day, the experts examined compacted ungraded astatine Gap-1, carried retired removal tests to measure consolidation and stability, and inspected ongoing operation works. The sojourn concluded with a broad reappraisal of tract observations and task progress.
