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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has instructed officials to rapidly hole task proposals to utilise the funds expected nether the Purvodaya Scheme for the integrated improvement of each 3 regions of Andhra Pradesh.
At a reappraisal gathering connected irrigation and Purvodaya-related proposals connected Tuesday, the Chief Minister said the funds indispensable beryllium strategically directed towards irrigation projects, enlargement of horticulture crops, and agrarian infrastructure, including roadworthy connectivity. He asked the medication to make 82 horticulture clusters crossed Prakasam territory and Rayalaseema, with a extremity of expanding horticulture cultivation to 20 lakh acres.
Mr. Naidu projected preparing task submissions worthy ₹40,000 crore nether the scheme, with ₹20,000 crore earmarked for irrigation and ₹20,000 crore for infrastructure, including ₹5,000 crore for caller agrarian roads that volition nexus villages to nationalist and State highways. He besides asked officials to prioritise completion of 23 large and mean irrigation projects and 1,021 tanks successful Prakasam and Rayalaseema to guarantee assured h2o proviso for horticulture crops.
The gathering reviewed the projected ₹58,700-crore Polavaram–Nallamala Sagar linkage project, expected to supply irrigation to 7 lakh caller acres and stabilise h2o proviso to different 6 lakh acres, portion besides supplying drinking h2o to 60 lakh radical successful Nellore and Prakasam districts. Officials said the task would additionally allocate 20 TMC of h2o for concern use.
The Chief Minister ordered contiguous steps to statesman execution and analyse the feasibility of diverting 200 TMC of Godavari floodwaters to Bollapalli and Nallamala Sagar, and 50 TMC of Krishna waters from Nagarjuna Sagar to Bollapalli.
Calling for faster advancement connected irrigation projects successful North Andhra, helium directed officials to hole proposals worthy ₹5,000 crore to implicit pending works. Noting that the portion is well-suited for lipid thenar and different horticulture crops, helium stressed the request to beforehand earthy and integrated farming successful the Agency areas.
He besides instructed enactment connected the ₹169-crore task to nexus the Vamsadhara, Nagavali, and Champavati rivers. Integrating the Hiramandalam reservoir and the Narayanapuram dam would alteration irrigation for an further 5,000 acres, helium said.
Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav, Water Resources Minister Nimmala Rama Naidu, and elder officials of assorted departments attended the review.
