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HYDERABAD
Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy connected Saturday announced that enactment connected the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) passageway task had resumed past week and astir 20 metres of passageway was excavated during the past 1 week from the Devarakonda side, wherever the enactment remained stalled for the past 7 years.
He reviewed the advancement of the enactment with elder officials of the Irrigation Department connected mobilisation of manpower, instrumentality and tentative completion timelines for some Tunnel-I and Tunnel-II. He interacted with the task officials connected the information protocols being observed astatine the enactment tract and the measures initiated to code ventilation and dewatering issues astatine the workplace successful the tunnels.
The Minister said men and materials were mobilised astatine the tract successful a large mode and immoderate 7 excavation cycles were successfully completed from the Devarakonda extremity (outlet side). The work, which involves precocious tunnelling methods, was being monitored intimately utilizing observational techniques that guarantee information done nonstop drilling protocols and installation of other supports. He noted that the implementation bureau had deployed specialised instrumentality to code anticipated ventilation challenges heavy wrong the passageway and it is expected to accelerate the gait of excavation. Work from the inlet broadside would besides commence soon with preparations including a 20-metre unfastened chopped and further information installations already underway.
Stating that the bureau was importing electrical and ventilation instrumentality to further heighten ratio with afloat operations apt to beryllium ramped up successful a fortnight, Mr. Uttam Reddy said the 44 km SLBC passageway intended to irrigate drought-prone areas successful Nalgonda and supply drinking h2o to fluoride-affected regions has been nether operation from some ends (inlet astatine Srisailam/Domalapenta and outlet astatine Devarakonda).
However, the advancement was stalled pursuing a tragic extortion illness connected February 22 past twelvemonth adjacent the inlet side-end. The Minister stressed that information remains paramount alongside adherence to schedules. He instructed the officials to guarantee round-the-clock enactment with strict protocols.
Breakthrough is targeted by the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth (2027) with afloat commissioning expected by June 2028, the Minister said optimistically. This renewed propulsion follows earlier decisions to displacement from Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) methods deemed unsuitable owed to geological challenges to safer observation-based techniques.
A dedicated part was formed to show the task closely. The SLBC passageway is simply a captious constituent of Telangana’s irrigation infrastructure aimed astatine benefiting implicit 3-lakh acres ayacut, too helping augment the drinking h2o sources successful the region.
