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Land acquisition remains large bottleneck arsenic 2,659 acres is yet to beryllium acquired
HYDERABAD
Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has asked the authorities to extremity delays successful the execution of large irrigation projects, and reminded some the irrigation engineers and contractors astir the December 31, 2027, deadline for completion of the ₹18,400-crore J. Chokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme (JCRDLIS).
At a reappraisal gathering present connected Saturday, helium instructed the officials to guarantee completion of the task by December-end, 2027. Aimed astatine providing irrigation enactment to 5.57 lakh acres crossed 10 districts, the task was a apical precedence for the State Government, helium reiterated.
The Minister undertook an exhaustive package-wise reappraisal covering carnal progress, fiscal status, onshore acquisition, tribunal cases, pending distributary systems, contractor delays, ayacut instauration and backing requirements.
Describing the Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme arsenic a prestigious project, helium said the strategy was designed to assistance 38.16 tmc ft of h2o from the Godavari stream to irrigate drought-prone and upland regions. The Government was afloat committed to providing irrigation facilities to 5.57 lakh acres crossed Hanumakonda, Warangal, Jangaon, Yadadri-Bhongir, Suryapet, Siddipet, Mahabubabad, Mulugu, Jayashankar-Bhupalpally and Karimnagar districts.
Taken up during 2004-05 with an estimated outgo of ₹6,016 crore, the task outgo had present escalated to astir ₹18,400 crore owed to increases successful costs and ostentation implicit the years. The authorities had truthful acold spent ₹14,422 crore connected the task and different ₹3,978 crore would beryllium required to implicit the remaining works.
The Minister said the Devadula task was being implemented successful 3 phases done 16 packages. Phase-I was designed to irrigate 1.23 lakh acres, Phase-II 1.93 lakh acres and Phase-III 2.39 lakh acres. The infrastructure web includes 20 pump houses, 642 km of pipelines, 57.16 km of tunnels, 20 reservoirs, 306 km of main canals and 2,185 km of distributary network.
Mr. Reddy noted that the task would see Asia’s longest 49-km D-shaped irrigation passageway and said arrangements were being made to conscionable the project’s 495.55 MW powerfulness requirement. He besides stated that the Sammakka barrage integration would guarantee adjacent year-round h2o availability for Devadula.
