Top priority to complete pending irrigation projects with focus on time-bound implementation, says Minister

Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the State authorities has fixed apical precedence to completing pending irrigation projects with absorption connected time-bound implementation, organization accountability and method transparency.

Accordingly, the authorities has prioritised Pranahita-Chevella Sujala Sravanthi, Srisailam Left Bank Canal and Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages of the Kaleshwaram task for completion. The archetypal connected the docket was the Tummidihatti constituent of the Pranahita-Chevella project, for which engineering teams were evaluating alternate canal alignments and a determination connected this would beryllium taken by October 22.

The options progressive carrying h2o from Mylaram done a 71.5 km gravity canal and a 14-km passageway to Sundilla portion the 2nd way would beryllium to divert h2o done Yellampalli with an intermediate pumping station. The method reappraisal encompassed cost, hydraulic efficiency, topographical compatibility and vigor requirements.

Officials acrophobic were directed to implicit a comparative investigation of some the options successful 2 weeks and taxable study on with the outgo estimates to the government. The absorption was arsenic connected the completion of the SLBC passageway task by December 2027, and the enactment would commence with revised estimates aft the extremity of the existent monsoon season.

Necessary permissions for a helicopter-borne aerial magnetic survey, to beryllium conducted by the National Geophysical Research Institute mapping the underground stone structures, were expected from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation soon. Both method and administrative bottlenecks were being removed to support the docket for the task which would proceed to person precocious level monitoring till its completion.

Restoration of Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages was being done arsenic per the NDSA study and the authorities had floated an Expression of Interest (EoI) inviting nationalist institutions and adept organisations to enactment successful the restoration work. Premier instauration IIT was apt to beryllium the main method spouse moving intimately with the Chief Design Organisation (CDO) of the department.

Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the State authorities approached the Central Water Commission seeking h2o allocation to Sammakka-Sarakka task arsenic good arsenic clearance from the Technical Advisory Committee. In addition, concern clearance applications for Seethamma Sagar, Modikuntavagu, distributory systems of Chanaka–Korata and Chinna Kaleshwaram had been submitted to the Central authorities and the appraisal of these projects nether the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) model was astatine an precocious stage.