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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed the officials to travel the Irrigation Calendar for timely completion of projects and to adhd 11 much precedence projects to it, which takes the full fig to 36. The Finance Department should guarantee capable backing for onshore acquisition and civilian works successful bid to facilitate execution of the projects arsenic per the timelines that were fixed, helium said.
Addressing a reappraisal gathering connected irrigation projects astatine the Secretariat connected Monday, Mr. Naidu said 88% of the civilian component, 93% of onshore acquisition and 45% of Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) works of the Polavaram task person been completed and the equilibrium works should beryllium expedited.
He noted that works connected the near canal attack channel, caput regulator and irrigation passageway were nether mode and ordered that the Gap-1 and 2 works of the Earth-Cum-Rock Fill (ECRF) dam of the Polavaram task indispensable beryllium completed wrong the stipulated timeline and h2o supplied done the near canal via Purushothapatnam assistance strategy from July.
Rayalaseema gets water
Officials told the Chief Minister that nether Handri-Neeva Phase-1, 92% canal widening has been completed portion 85% of the lining enactment of Kuppam–Punganur canals nether Phase-2 has been completed. For the archetypal time, 52 TMCFT of h2o has been diverted from the Malyala assistance strategy to the Rayalaseema region, which resulted successful filling of 432 tanks.
Mr. Naidu said erstwhile h2o from Polavaram reached Meghadrigedda done the near canal, it should beryllium linked further to the Vamsadhara, the Nagavali and the Champavathi, and the outgo of the Meghadrigedda–Champavathi nexus should beryllium examined.
The Chief Minister directed that compensation to the displaced families nether the Polavaram R&R bundle should beryllium implemented strictly arsenic per instrumentality and relocation completed by April 2027 without immoderate dispute. He projected the operation of an iconic span downstream of the Polavaram spillway, and directed the officials to guarantee that Phase-1 of the Veligonda task was completed by July and to region passageway boring machine-related obstacles astatine the earliest.
