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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has fixed in-principle support to assistance a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to Telangana for the Sammakka Sagar Project connected the Godavari River.
The determination came aft Telangana’s Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, accompanied by elder officials, met him successful Raipur connected Monday.
Speaking to the media later, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said helium had submitted a memorandum outlining Telangana’s committedness to instrumentality afloat work for onshore acquisition, compensation and rehabilitation successful Chhattisgarh.
He besides emphasised that the NOC was the last interstate request earlier the Central Water Commission could springiness its approval. In his PowerPoint presumption earlier the Chhattisgarh CM, the Minister informed that the Sammakka Sagar Barrage was being constructed astatine Tupakulagudem successful Mulugu district. Designed with a retention capableness of 6.7 TMC astatine the Full Reservoir Level of 83 metres, it is located connected the Godavari downstream of its confluence with the Indravathi.
According to task plans, the Sammakka Sagar Project volition stabilise an ayacut of 1.78 lakh hectares nether the Sriramsagar Project Stage-II and make a caller ayacut of 12,146 hectares nether the Ramappa–Pakhal Link Canal. This further irrigation imaginable volition payment Warangal, Suryapet, Mahabubabad, Jangaon and Khammam districts, on with Nalgonda.
Alongside the barrage, the task envisages attack channels and gravity canals to transportation h2o into bid areas. It includes 3 pump houses and transportation cisterns designed to grip ample volumes of discharge.
The Minister acknowledged that the project’s backwaters would widen into Bhoopalpatnam tahsil of Bijapur territory successful Chhattisgarh, resulting successful submergence. He explained that astir 13.06 hectares of land, 54.03 hectares of stream country and 6.35 hectares of nala onshore would beryllium affected.
He said Telangana had already offered to conscionable each costs associated with submergence, including onshore acquisition and rehabilitation successful Chhattisgarh territory.
