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HYDERABAD
The State authorities has prepared proposals to proviso h2o from J. Chokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme (DLIS) and Sriramsagar Project (SRSP) to Suryapet district, peculiarly Tungaturthy constituency, with an estimated outgo of ₹1,000 crore, Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy announced astatine Suryapet connected Monday.
Speaking astatine the district-level extended gathering of the Congress to stitchery feedback from enactment workers connected the assignment of caller president for the District Congress Committee (DCC), the Minister said the Congress authorities was moving with unwavering resoluteness to streamline the proviso of SRSP h2o to Suryapet district.
He noted that the reservoir’s capacity, which was primitively 112 tmc ft, had dropped to 80 tmc ft owed to siltation, affecting h2o proviso successful the tail-end areas. He said the authorities would initiate de-silting works successful SRSP and would repair damaged canals and lining to reconstruct afloat capableness and uninterrupted h2o flow.
Crediting erstwhile Minister and Congress person precocious Ramreddy Damodar Reddy for bringing SRSP Phase-2 h2o to the district, helium recalled that the Congress had led respective agitations nether his leadership, including a ‘raktharpanam‘ protest, demanding SRSP h2o to the area. To honour the precocious leader, the authorities had decided to sanction SRSP Phase-2 aft Damodar Reddy, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy stated.
On the agriculture front, helium said the State was acceptable to execute a historical paddy accumulation of 148.3 lakh tonnes this Kharif season. The Minister said the authorities was prepared to procure 80 lakh tonnes astatine an estimated outgo of ₹24,000 crore.
Later, astatine a reappraisal gathering held here, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the authorities was committed to implicit DLIS to marque North Telangana a granary of cultivation produce. Minister for Panchayat Raj D. Seethakka, MP P. Balaram Naik, MLAs K.R. Nagaraj, M. Yashaswini Reddy, P. Rajeshwar Reddy and authorities of the Irrigation section attended the meeting.
The Irrigation Minister stated that retired of 5.57 lakh acres irrigation planned nether DLIS successful Warangal, Hanmakonda, Karimnagar, Jayashankar-Bhupalapally, Mulugu, Jangaon, Bhongir-Yadadri, Suryapet and Siddipet districts, h2o was already being fixed to 3.17 lakh acres. Of the revised outgo of ₹18,500 crore, astir ₹14,270 crore was already spent.
On the advancement of works, helium said 1,663 km magnitude of canals were already excavated retired of 2,430 km and 670 km magnitude of pipelines were laid retired of 703 km. Lining of canals was besides completed for 800 km.
