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The Telangana authorities has decided to resume works connected the long-pending Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) passageway with Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy announcing a renewed propulsion to implicit the ambitious task wrong stipulated timelines.
Chairing a high-level reappraisal gathering with elder officials of the Irrigation Department astatine his Secretariat chambers connected Sunday, the Minister said the works, which were stalled pursuing a passageway extortion illness connected February 22 past year, would present restart utilizing precocious tunnelling methodologies. The SLBC tunnel, a cardinal constituent of the Alimineti Madhava Reddy Project, was launched successful 1983.
In presumption of analyzable geological conditions, the authorities has decided to wantonness the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) method and follow precocious tunnelling techniques. The Minister said the task tract has been afloat cleared, including the removal of the TBM from the outlet side.
This determination follows a helicopter-borne VTEM Plus Magnetic Geophysical Survey conducted by scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute, which has provided elaborate information connected subsurface stone conditions.
Based connected the survey findings, the authorities plans to instal beforehand informing systems for anemic stone zones and instrumentality 3D monitoring to fortify information and structural enactment during excavation. JP Infra volition proceed arsenic the executing agency, portion an escrow relationship has been acceptable up to guarantee secure, project-specific fiscal management.
Spanning astir 44 km with entree lone from the Srisailam inlet and the Devarkonda outlet, the SLBC passageway is acceptable to go the world’s longest passageway excavated without intermediate shafts. Once completed, it is expected to irrigate astir 3 lakh acres successful drought-prone regions of Telangana and supply drinking h2o to fluoride-affected villages.
Officials informed the Minister that excavation has, truthful far, reached 13.94 km from the inlet broadside and 20.4 km from the outlet, leaving astir 9.8 km to beryllium completed. The Minister directed that operation should proceed simultaneously from some ends to accelerate progress.
Mr.Uttam Kumar Reddy instructed Principal Secretary Rahul Bojja and different officials to wide each pending payments to the contractor without delay. The works volition beryllium carried retired circular the timepiece successful 3 shifts, with elder officials mandated to stay on-site for swift decision-making.
To boost unit morale, the Minister announced a 25% wage hike for task employees beneath the fertile of Executive Engineer.
The reappraisal gathering was attended by Principal Secretary Rahul Bojja, passageway adept Colonel Parikshit Mehra, Engineer-in-Chief Amjad Hussain and Irrigation Adviser Haripal Singh.
