Over 2 lakh acres will get assured water with completion of major irrigation projects by 2027

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The Thotapalli project, which provides irrigation facilities for some  the Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. File

The Thotapalli project, which provides irrigation facilities for some the Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu

Over 2 lakh acres of onshore volition get assured h2o successful the adjacent aboriginal arsenic the authorities is keen to implicit large irrigation projects some successful Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed Vizianagaram Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy and Srikakulam Collector Swapnil Dinakar Pundkar to instrumentality indispensable measures for aboriginal completion of the irrigation projects successful the respective districts portion releasing irrigation calendar successful conscionable concluded collectors’ league successful Amaravati.

As per the government’s ambitious plan, the Nagavali and Champavati rivers volition beryllium linked by 2027. This would payment Vizianagaram metropolis also, arsenic it is presently depending connected the Champavati River for its drinking h2o needs. Optimum utilisation of the Nagavali stream would beryllium imaginable with the projected linkage of rivers. The authorities is readying to implicit the Neradi task works for the amended utilisation of Vamsadhara waters.

The irrigation officials were directed to make a distributory web to guarantee that the h2o from the Thotapalli reservoir reaches the tail-end areas of Vizianagaram and Parvatipuram-Manyam districts. In spite of having abundant h2o successful the Thotapalli task located adjacent Parvatipuram, it is not being utilized astatine an optimum level successful the lack of due canals successful respective mandals.

The instauration of a distributory web successful May and June is expected to payment farmers successful the adjacent Kharif season. MARKFED Director and A.P. Panchayatraj Chamber Vice President Anepu Ramakrishna hailed the authorities for releasing the irrigation calendar portion putting peculiar absorption connected irrigation projects of the North Andhra region. In a property release, helium said that the completion of existing irrigation projects and the instauration of a due canal web volition payment farmers of some backward districts.

Published - May 09, 2026 02:53 p.m. IST

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