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HYDERABAD
The Irrigation Department whitethorn find it hard to lucifer the expectations of the authorities and its objectives of completing the pending and ongoing projects connected a precedence ground successful 2026-27 with the fund allocation to the assemblage getting pruned by ₹740 crore to ₹22,615 crore against ₹23,355 crore past year.
In his fund speech, Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka listed retired galore pending/ongoing projects specified arsenic Palamuru-Rangareddy, Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu, Bheema, Dindi, Devadula, Sita Rama, Chinna Kaleshwaram and Makthal-Narayanpet-Kodangal Lift Irrigation Schemes, Srisailam Left Bank Canal Project, Udayasamudram, Gouravelli Project and astir different twelve LI and different schemes. He besides announced taking up Pranahitha-Chevella project.
However, of the ₹22,615 crore allocation for 2026-27 lone ₹12,836 crore (budget astatine a glimpse document) is meant for superior works and the remainder for constitution needs. The constitution expenditure includes the salaries, cognition and attraction costs of irrigation projects and assistance irrigation schemes specified arsenic vigor bills for lifting h2o and others.
As per the sector-wise outlays fixed successful the ‘pragati paddu’ papers of the budget, the outlay for superior works is shown arsenic ₹11,871 crore including the assistance nether Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme-AIBP (₹1,121 crore), centrally sponsored schemes (₹228 crore) and Rural Infrastructure Development Fund-RIDF from NABARD (₹5.4 crore) expected from the Central Government. The outlay for superior works successful 2025-26 was ₹11,800 crore.
The outlay includes ₹8,983 crore for large irrigation, ₹510 crore for mean irrigation and ₹2,080 crore for insignificant irrigation projects and the remaining for groundwater, flood power and drainage and bid country improvement needs.
One of the fewer takeaways successful the allocation for the irrigation assemblage for the coming fiscal is the government’s plans to instrumentality up de-siltation of large projects/reservoirs arsenic their h2o holding/storage capableness has travel down implicit the twelvemonth owed to accumulation of silt during the flood period. It has plans to desilt Kaddam, Lower Manair and Mid Manair projects connected gross generating model, portion it would beryllium taken up straight by the section successful projects specified arsenic Sriramsagar, Jurala, Nagarjunasagar and Musi.
Similarly, different large economical assemblage agriculture has received ₹1,260 crore little - ₹23,179 crore for 2026-27 against ₹24,439 allocation made successful 2025-26. The allocation for coming fiscal includes ₹18,000 crore for Rythu Bharosa, ₹3,500 crore for bonus to cultivation nutrient and ₹1,886 crore for harvest insurance.
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Year-wise Budgetary Allocation
for Irrigation Sector (₹in cr.)
Year Amount
2026-27 22,615
2025-26RE 23,355
2024-25* 23,492
2023-24* 29,766
2022-23* 19,349
2021-22* 15,771
2020-21* 11,358
2019-20* 10,521
2018-19* 9,507
* Accounts; RE Revised Estimates
(Budget allocations are successful summation to spending from retired of Corporation borrowings)
