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Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Minister Nimmala Rama Naidu, on with a squad of irrigation experts, inspected the Veligonda task works successful Prakasam territory for the 2nd clip successful a week connected Wednesday. He expressed heavy dissatisfaction and ire implicit the incomplete works of dewatering successful the feeder canal, collapsed culverts and duplicate tunnels damaged owed to caller Cyclone Montha.
Speaking to representatives of the agencies that person undertaken the operation enactment and the officials liable for monitoring it, helium said, “The dewatering enactment and filling of the ditches indispensable beryllium done connected a war-foot basis, but they person been pending for a week. It indispensable beryllium completed soon to present justness to the astir backward and fluoride-affected district.”
“Since the conjugation authorities came to power, the lining of 12,000 metre of the full 19,000-metre feeder canal has been completed. Unless the lining is done astatine a complaint of 600-metre-per-month, the remaining 7,000 metre of lining volition not beryllium completed by 2026, which is the specified deadline,” Mr. Nimmala said.
He directed the officials to marque arrangements to commencement each the works similar lining and benching successful the duplicate tunnels and implicit them connected warfare footing. He stressed that the feeder canal lining and retaining partition operation work, undertaken astatine a outgo of ₹456 crore, should beryllium started this period itself and completed by the adjacent rainy season.
The Minister warned of strict enactment against anyone recovered blameworthy of dereliction of duty. Markapuram MLA Kandula Narayana Reddy, Giddalur MLA Ashok Reddy, Yerragondapalem TDP in-charge Erixion Babu, Irrigation Advisor Venkateswara Rao, Project CE Shyam Prasad, and elder officials participated successful the programme.
