‘Sri Ram Sagar scheme will make Telangana lush green’

Project will provide water to 45 lakh acres, says KCR

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday said that with the Sri Ram Sagar Restoration Scheme, the entire north Telangana would become lush green with crops. The project, through its canals, would provide water to 40-45 lakh acres.

The scheme launched with an outlay of ₹2,000 crore would be completed by next August or even earlier, he said. The 110-km-long flood flow canal, through which water from Kaleswaram would be brought back to the SRSP through the reverse pumping system, would always be filled with water, he said at a mammoth public meeting on the banks of Godavari here. Earlier, the Chief Minister laid the foundation of the project and performed bhumi puja at the FFC head regulator on the SRSP dam.

‘365 days water’

In his 20-minute address, Mr. Rao said the entire area between the Kakatiya canal and the flood flow canal up to Suryapet and Tungaturthy would get water for 365 days. Mr. Rao said several projects were designed with a pucca plan and, with all these projects getting filled with water, the Godavari would become a perennial source of water.

All small and medium barrages in undivided Adilabad, and Medak, Nalgonda and Nizamabad districts would have plenty of water round the year through Medigadda, Sundilla, Annaram, Mallanna Sagar, Gandamalla and Nizam Sagar. Flaying the Congress leaders, he said they had filed 96 cases on the Kaleswaram project alone and six cases in 20 days on land acquisition for Kondapochamma barrage in his Gajwel constituency.