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A high-level delegation from the Maharashtra Water Resources Department visited the Polavaram Project connected Tuesday (November 11, 2025) to survey its large operation components, technologies, and large-scale h2o absorption infrastructure.
The ten-member squad inspected respective captious structures, including the spillway, diaphragm wall, coffer dams, and the hydropower project. Project DE Balakrishna, MEIL General Manager A. Gangadhar, and Deputy General Manager Murali Pammi briefed the delegation connected the project’s progress, design, and execution methodologies.
The sojourn began with an enactment betwixt the Maharashtra officials and elder representatives from the Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Department and Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL). Officials presented an overview of the project’s operation stages, structural innovations, and operational goals.
The squad besides examined the project’s standard model, signaling videos and taking notes for method reference. They showed peculiar involvement successful Polavaram’s spillway system, 1 of the largest successful the world, susceptible of discharging immoderate of the highest flood volumes globally. Detailed explanations were fixed connected the design, fabrication, and installation of the monolithic radial gates and their hydraulic operating systems.
Andhra Pradesh Water Resources and MEIL officials on with the visiting Maharashtra delegation astatine Polavaram task tract connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
During the tract inspection, the delegation reviewed the precocious and little coffer dams, diaphragm wall, and food ladder, studying the engineering techniques and precocious exertion used. They inquired astir the operation timeline, manpower deployment, and the machinery employed for large-scale civilian works.
Later, the officials visited the Polavaram Hydro Power Plant area, wherever they were briefed connected the integration of the powerfulness constituent with the irrigation and flood power features of the multipurpose project.
The visiting squad comprised SEs Shriram Hajare and Ravindra Wankhade; EEs Paranjit Singh Juneja, Tushar Metkar, and Ganesh Bhagat; and DEs Umesh Pachapoor, Dhananjay Shinde, Anil Rathod, Ravindra Vishwakarma, and Ganesh Ingle.
