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HYDERABAD
Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy connected Sunday told the Assembly that the authorities was actively moving connected the rehabilitation and revival of the 3 Kaleshwaram task barrages — Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla — by involving IIT Delhi and planetary experts.
He reiterated that the blunders committed by the BRS authorities including immense high-cost (interest) borrowings for the task had resulted successful the contiguous authorities wage ₹10,000 crore towards involvement unsocial each year. It was with the volition to marque usage of the barrages the authorities had gone for an enquiry by the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) experts.
Besides, they had besides instituted a vigilance and enforcement (V&E) enquiry and a one-man judicial enquiry by a retired Supreme Court justice connected the irregularities from the signifier of planning, designing, construction, prime power and cognition and attraction of the 3 barrages.
The enactment connected rehabilitation of the barrages was appearing dilatory to others but the authorities was progressing carefully, the Minister said. On the Pranahita-Chevella project, helium said it would beryllium taken guardant with a barrage astatine Tummidihatti arsenic the root arsenic primitively envisaged. However, the transmission way of h2o was being changed since the Tummidihatti-Yellampally way via Mancherial and ember mines was progressive with galore challenges.
He stated that 1 R.V. Engineering Consultancy moving astatine IIT Chennai was fixed the task of vetting the alternate way for linking Tummidihatti with Sundilla Barrage. The authorities would instrumentality up the task soon and implicit it successful 3 years, helium noted.
On Palamuru-Rangareddy, helium said the viability of Laxmidevipally reservoir would beryllium studied successful a week’s clip to supply h2o to areas, including Shadnagar and Parigi, and onshore acquisition would beryllium commenced based connected the survey report. The Minister made these announcements portion giving clarifications connected the treatment of voting of demands for grants.
