Godavari water released from Dowleswaram barrage for Kharif season, secures irrigation for 2.63 lakh acres

Minister for Tourism and Culture Kandula Durgesh on with nationalist representatives of the Godavari Delta connected Sunday released Godavari h2o from Sir Arthur Cotton barrage astatine Dowleswaram, kick-starting Kharif operations successful the delta region. 

In the archetypal phase, the h2o released volition screen 2.63 lakh acres of cultivation onshore successful the Godavari Delta, with 85,000 acres successful the eastbound delta, 41,000 acres nether the Nidadavolu and Kovvuru canals and 1.37 lakh acres successful the Kakinada district.

Addressing the gathering of farmers here, Mr. Durgesh said, “The farmers person to negociate the h2o to hole for the aboriginal Kharif operations. ₹13 crore is being spent connected repairing the irrigation canals and 80% of the enactment is over. In the 2nd phase, those canals volition beryllium the h2o for the Kharif operations.”

Rajya Sabha Member Sana Satish, Kakinada Member of Parliament Tangella Uday Srinivas and Amalapuram MP G. Harish Madhur, who were contiguous erstwhile the h2o was released, assured to statesman the renovation works of Sir Arthur Cotton barrage wrong a fewer months. 

Godavari Eastern Delta Project Committee Chairman Mooralasetty Sunil Kumar, Western Delta Project Committee Chairman Muralikrishna Raju, Dowleswaram Irrigation Circle Superintendent Engineer G. Srinivasa Rao and different officials reviewed the availability of h2o and enactment program to proviso the h2o for the Kharif operations successful the full Godavari Delta.