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Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies N. Uttam Kumar Reddy announced a peculiar thrust to fast-track works connected the cardinal irrigation projects intended to payment erstwhile Mahbubnagar and different South Telangana districts by extending the required money support, portion pledging to marque the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme afloat operational successful the adjacent 30 months.
He besides vowed to implicit the Kalwakurthy, Nettempadu, Bhima and Koilsagar projects by March 2027, portion reviewing the presumption of the works connected the projects.
Mr. Reddy stated that the authorities is steadfast connected stepping up the gait of the works successful advancement with circumstantial allocations of ₹909 crore for Kalwakurthy, ₹252 crore for Nettempadu, ₹200 crore for Bhima and ₹185 crore for Koilsagar implicit the adjacent 1 year.
Quoting Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, helium said that the onshore acquisition was fixed apical precedence with a determination to implicit it nether cardinal projects each implicit the State by releasing ₹5,000 crore by June 2 this year.
He noted that these projects were subjected to neglect ever since the BRS came to powerfulness successful 2014 . He criticised changes similar shifting the off-take constituent for the Palamuru- Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme from Jurala to Srisailam and akin issues with Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, for which the cardinal root was shifted from Tummidihatti to Medigadda.
He accused the BRS of indulging successful mendacious propaganda connected the irrigation projects. For the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS), helium noted that the BRS secured administrative support for ₹35,200 crore but spent lone astir ₹27,000 crore. Only 1 pump of the Palamuru- Rangareddy Lift Scheme was enactment into cognition for hardly 1 hr successful September 2023.
Costs person since escalated, with the revised estimates putting it astir ₹55,000 crore and present expected to outgo up to ₹80,000 crore.
The Congress authorities had spent ₹7,161 crore connected the Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme from December 7, 2023, to date. It has spent ₹6,718 crore connected the implementation of the task works, ₹284.71 crore connected onshore acquisition, ₹63.65 crore connected Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) and ₹94 crore connected different project-related heads.
