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KUMRAM BHEEM ASIFABAD
Telangana authorities is resolute successful its committedness to revive the Pranahita-Chevella Sujala Sravanthi task (Tummidihatti barrage), said Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao and Labour Minister G. Vivek.
The TG authorities volition soon clasp talks with the Maharashtra authorities successful this respect to instrumentality guardant the connection for the operation of a barrage of 150 metres tallness crossed the Pranahita stream astatine Tummidihatti successful Kumram Bheem Asifabad district, they told reporters aft visiting the task tract astatine Tummidihatti connected Friday.
Mr. Rao said the Union Ministers, MPs and MLAs of the BJP from the State should strive to person the Maharashtra authorities to conception the barrage. They should instrumentality this up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his sojourn to the State connected May 10, Mr. Rao said. The Centre should enactment the origin of Telangana radical and farmers, helium added.
The task volition assistance summation groundwater array and beryllium beneficial for some Telangana and Maharashtra. The Telangana authorities is prepared to springiness compensation for onshore nonaccomplishment for the project, helium said.
The Bhoomi puja for the task was performed by the past Chief Minister of agreed Andhra Pradesh the precocious Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy successful 2008. It was designed to irrigate 16 lakh acres astatine an estimated outgo of ₹38,500 crore. Lands to an grade of 71.5 km were acquired and 46 km magnitude of canals were constructed during that period, helium noted.
Mr. Rao alleged that the erstwhile BRS authorities arbitrarily changed the barrage tract from Tummidihatti to Medigadda and constructed the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) by spending respective thousands of crores, posing a immense indebtedness load connected the State exchequer.
He pointed retired that the pillars of the Medigadda barrage of the KLIP sunk successful October 2023, rendering it defunct since then.
