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After 2 years of governmental and administrative contention implicit the structural quality of the barrages of the Kaleshwaram project, the authorities has decided to repair the 3 barrages based connected the suggestions of the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA).
The authorities has invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) from reputed plan agencies for preparing rehabilitation and restoration designs of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages. A notification issued by the Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) Department said that the EOIs indispensable beryllium submitted by October 15. Chief Engineer of the Central Designs Organisation said the empanelled agencies volition beryllium tasked with preparing rehabilitation designs based connected the investigations conducted by the NDSA committee.
Some piers of the Medigadda barrage, the main barrage of the Kaleshwaram task sank successful October 2023, conscionable earlier the Assembly elections giving a changeable successful the limb to the Congress enactment that blamed the BRS authorities of compromising connected the prime of the project. The incidental had a immense interaction connected the BRS prospects arsenic the Congress relentlessly attacked the KCR government.
The NDSA was asked to probe the incidental by the Congress authorities and the committee submitted its last study successful April 2025. It recommended rehabilitation plans for each 3 barrages — Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla, citing superior plan and operation deficiencies.
In its 378-page report, the NDSA pointed retired operation flaws and plan weaknesses. The study besides concluded that upstream barrages Annaram and Sundilla person shown structural distress, cannot beryllium utilized unless repairs were carried. It recommended that rehabilitation designs beryllium prepared by reputed institutions and reviewed by the Central Water Commission.
The Justice P.C. Ghose Commission constituted successful March 2024 to analyse alleged irregularities successful the planning, design, construction, and attraction of the Kaleshwaram project, submitted its study connected July 31, 2025. It besides pointed retired superior lapses connected respective fronts.
Meanwhile, the BRS lashed retired astatine the Congress authorities for wasting 2 years successful the sanction of investigations and yet repairing the damages arsenic has been demanded by the BRS. It claimed farmers suffered owed to the inaction of the government.
