KCR directs irrigation officials to redesign all projects

Hyderabad, July 17: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao directed irrigation officials to redesign all projects to provide irrigation water to another 40 lakh acres of land by using 400 TMCs water in addition to the existing projects. For this purpose, he told them to redesign each and every project from Tummidihatti to Dummugudem in Khammam district. He told the officials to construct a project at Tummidihatti, which divided Pranahitha project into two parts, to supply water to Adilabad district; and to construct another project at Kaleshwaram in Karimnagar district to supply water to Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Medak, Warangal and Nalgonda districts. The Chief Minister requested Central government agency Water and Power Consultancy Services to submit a report after redesigning all the existing projects to use Godavari waters to the fullest. According to the CM, irrigation water is to be supplied to one lakh acres of land in each constituency. Out of the 54 constituencies in Godavari basin, leaving four urban constituencies, irrigation water should be supplied to 50 acres of land, on an average of one lakh, in the remaining 50 constituencies, he said. KCR said Telangana State has the right to use 953 tmc water of the Godavari river. He, however, said that the existing projects can store only 433 tmcs. He, therefore, suggested that new projects sould be built to use an additional 520 tmcs.