Veligonda project will turn drought-prone areas of Prakasam district to fertile lands: CM

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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on  with Ongole MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy, industrialists, and different   officials, astatine  the instauration  chromatic  laying ceremonial  of an MSME Park successful  Pedairlapadu successful  Prakasam territory  connected  Tuesday.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on with Ongole MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy, industrialists, and different officials, astatine the instauration chromatic laying ceremonial of an MSME Park successful Pedairlapadu successful Prakasam territory connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: KOMMURI SRINIVAS

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu assured the radical of Prakasam territory that the Veligonda task would beryllium completed by 2026. Once the task becomes operational, it volition supply h2o to drought-prone areas similar Kanigiri, Yerragondapalem, Giddalur and Markapuram, making them fertile cultivation lands, helium said.

After inaugurating an MSME Park astatine Pedairlapadu colony of Pedacherlo Palle mandal successful the territory connected Tuesday, helium addressed the section people. “The NDA authorities is paying peculiar attraction to the backward areas of the State. We volition bring industries and h2o to those areas successful Prakasam district,” the Chief Minister said.

“We volition implicit the Veligonda task by 2026 and soon Kanigiri volition go ‘Kanakapatnam’ (golden city). Before the elections, we had promised to supply h2o to this constituency and we volition fulfil it precise soon. We volition bring h2o not lone from Godavari, but besides from Srisailam,” Mr. Naidu said, accusing the erstwhile authorities for neglecting the completion of the project.

“The task would person been completed by 2020 if we came to powerfulness successful the 2019 wide elections. The people’s problems remained unresolved due to the fact that of the erstwhile government’s policies. This should not hap again successful the future,” helium added. Ongole MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and section MLA Mukku Ugra Narasimha Reddy were besides contiguous connected the occasion.

Published - November 11, 2025 08:13 p.m. IST

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