5 months ago
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HYDERABAD
A fact-finding committee comprising retired engineers, professors and others, which visited Tanugula and Adavi Somanpally checkdams pursuing their harm successful the alleged blasts, has demanded that the constabulary instrumentality stern enactment against those liable for the harm aft completing their enquiry astatine the earliest.
The committee said successful its study that excessive soil mining would besides harm the checkdams. The enactment connected soil mining successful the Manair stream imposed by the National Green Tribunal was vacated by the State Government by appealing against the tribunal bid successful the Supreme Court.
They further requested the constabulary section to implicit the probe into the complaints connected blasts astatine Medigadda barrage of the Kaleshwaram project, Hussainmia checkdam and the caller incidents of Tanugula and Adavi Somanpally checkdams. They besides appealed to Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy to reconstruct the past 2 checkdams earlier the rainy play to bring them backmost into use.
The fact-finding committee comprising Prof. Seetarama Rao, Prof. Raghava Reddy, V. Prakash, Damodar Reddy, Sridhar Rao Deshpande, Pittala Ravinder and others visited Tanugula checkdam tract successful Jammikunta mandal of Karimnagar territory that was allegedly blasted connected the nighttime of November 21. About 90 meters of the 737 meters checkdam was damaged successful the blast causing a nonaccomplishment of ₹3.5 crore.
The cheque dam constructed with ₹23 crore was irrigating 1,000 acres successful Tanugula, Gumpula and Shambhunipally colony and rejuvenating/recharging the borewells successful a 5-km radius to guarantee farmers irrigate 2 crops a year. The checkdam operation withstood 66,000 cusecs of flood released from Lower Manair Dam during the flood play this year, the committee explained.
The squad visited the Adavi Somanpally checkdam, which was blasted connected December 17, connected December 20 and recovered the debris inactive lying connected the checkdam operation arsenic it was successful lawsuit of Tanugula and it was imaginable lone successful lawsuit of a blast and washing distant would mostly transportation the debris downstream.
