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HYDERABAD
The Telangana government’s allocations for cardinal sectors specified arsenic Agriculture, Energy and Irrigation astir static with flimsy dip successful the allocation for Agriculture and Irrigation and a nominal summation for the Energy department, contempt summation successful the full outlay for the Budget 2026-27.
Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who holds the portfolios of Energy and Finance too, said portion presenting the fund that their authorities was correcting the “historic mistake” committed by the erstwhile (BRS) authorities and would instrumentality up Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Pranahitha Chevella task successful the erstwhile Adilabad district.
The allocation made for the irrigation assemblage for 2026-27 is ₹22,615 crore against ₹23,355 crore allocation for the existent twelvemonth (2025-26). He stated that their authorities had fought efficaciously for Telangana’s rightful stock successful the waters of Krishna and Godavari and reiterated that their precedence was completing irrigation projects.
Pending projects inherited
Stating that their authorities had inherited pending projects, including Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, helium said that they were making each efforts to implicit them connected precedence basis. To amended the h2o retention capableness of reservoirs silted owed to neglect by the erstwhile government, helium said they had taken up de-siltation of projects specified arsenic Kaddam, Lower Manair and Mid Manair nether the gross generating model.
Other projects specified arsenic Sriramsagar, Jurala, Nagarjunasagar and Musi were besides being planned to beryllium desilted.
Telangana government’s allocations section omniscient successful 2026-27 budget, presented connected March 20, 2026
Allocations to vigor sector
For vigor sector, the allocation made for 2026-27 is ₹21,285 crore, arsenic against ₹21,221 crore made successful the erstwhile year. The allocation includes enactment to the Discoms for schemes specified arsenic escaped powerfulness proviso to cultivation pump-sets, up to 200 units of escaped vigor proviso to households nether Gruhajyothi strategy and subsidised proviso to a fewer different sectors specified arsenic handlooms.
The Deputy Chief Minister announced constitution of the 3rd Discom purely to grip agriculture and assistance irrigation connections and mounting up artillery vigor retention systems of 1,500 MWh capableness each astatine Maheshwaram and Chotuppal. Similarly, the authorities was readying 11,460 MW capableness pumped retention hydel procreation units arsenic portion of the propulsion being fixed to greenish energy.
Solar pump-sets with 100% subsidy to 2.1 lakh tribal farmers
Under Indira Soura Giri Jala Vikasam, the authorities is readying to supply star pump-sets with 100% subsidy to 2.1 lakh tribal farmers with a fund outlay of ₹12,600 crore to assistance them instrumentality up plantation crops successful astir 6 lakh acres of ‘podu’ lands. A aviator task is already being implemented successful Achampet and aft studying its modalities the authorities would replicate it crossed the State, Mr. Vikramarka explained.
Agri assemblage allocation pruned
Despite the stupendous show being enactment up by the Agriculture sector, peculiarly successful accumulation of nutrient grains, the allocation for it is pruned to ₹23,179 for 2026-27, from ₹24,439 crore allocated past year. The allocation includes concern enactment astatine ₹6,000 per acre fixed to landholding farmers, for 2 seasons a twelvemonth nether Rythu Bharosa. The budgetary enactment includes ₹500 per quintal bonus fixed to good (A Grade) varieties of paddy and hold of micro irrigation to different 2.34 lakh acres with subsidy.
