Harish Rao sends selfie from pending KLIS canals to Revanth Reddy

Former Minister T Harish Rao inspected pending KLIS canal works in Medak and sent a selfie from the site to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy. He accused the Congress government of neglecting irrigation projects and demanded immediate release of funds.

Medak: Former Minister T Harish Rao, who clicked a selfie with pending canals of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) at Reddipalli and Manthur villages in Narsapur constituency, has sent the picture to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to inform him about the negligence of the Congress in completing the leftover works of KLIS.

Speaking to reporters after inspecting the canals on Thursday, Harish Rao said that the Congress government had failed to complete a yard of KLIS works during the last three years. Stating that the BRS government completed 85 per cent of the tunnel works in the 18th and 19th packages, Rao said that former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao wanted to impound Singur waters and further take Godavari water to Nizam Sagar by completing these two packages.

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However, the former minister said that Revanth had developed a grudge against the erstwhile Medak district and stalled the entire works. Even though Revanth participated in Zaheerabad and Sangareddy public meetings in recent months, Rao said that the Chief Minister did not utter a single word on KLIS, which reflected his ignorance of pending irrigation projects. He further said that the works of Sangameshwara and Basaveshwara Lift Irrigation Projects, through which Chandrashekhar Rao wanted to provide irrigation water to 5 lakh acres in Sangareddy and Medak districts, remained incomplete.

Referring to the proposals to increase the height of Ghanpur anicut and Haldi Project, he further exposed Congress’s negligence on irrigation projects in Medak district. Even though just 20 per cent of the lift irrigation project was pending in Dubbak when Congress came to power, Rao said Revanth failed to complete it even after repeated appeals from the local MLA Kotha Prabhakar Reddy.

Due to negligence in pumping water from KLIS during the rainy year, Rao said the water level in Mallanna Sagar, Kondapochamma Sagar and Rangnayaka Sagar was reduced to dead storage levels for the first time. Sharing the pictures of pending canals with Revanth over phone, the former minister demanded the Congress government release grants immediately to start the works of all the pending irrigation projects in Medak. Narsapur MLA V Sunitha Lakshma Reddy and other BRS leaders were present.