BRS leaders demand supply of water to crops by closing sluices of canal in Jagtial

The agricultural lands in the village have been deprived of irrigation water due to the closure of sluices in the SRSP canal. Therefore, officials should release Yellampalli water by opening the sluices to support the standing crops, he stated.

Jagtial: BRS leader and former MLA Sunke Ravishankar demanded irrigation officials to protect standing crops in Sriramulapalli of Kodimial mandal by supplying water from the Yellampalli project.

Agricultural lands in the village were unable to get irrigable water due to the closing of sluices of the SRSP canal. So, the officials should supply Yellampalli water to standing crops by opening sluices, he said.

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Ravishankar on Saturday visited the village and examined the closed sluices. He also spoke to irrigation officials over phone and asked them to open sluices as early as possible.

Speaking on the occasion, the BRS leader said that not a single gunta of paddy had withered during the last 10 years. Crops were protected by supplying Yellampalli water during the BRS regime. However, crops were withering after the Congress government came to power.

Motors, which supply Narayanapur water to Maisamma tank in Kondapur of Kodimial mandal, were not being operated. Anticipating the crops to wither like previous year, farmers had left some extent of land without cultivation. The State government was not in a position to supply water to at least a small extent of crops.

Ravishankar warned of dharnas and protests if the government failed to supply water to standing crops in six mandals of Choppadandi constituency.

Mallial market committee former chairman Korandla Narender Reddy, BRS leaders Bandapalli Anjan Kumar, Pyata Anji and farmers participated in the programme.