Here’s all you need to know about Kaleshwaram Project in Telangana

The Kaleshwaram Project is the jewel of Telangana 13 Districts in Telangana will benefit from this project

• Telangana’s barren lands turned arable with the Godavari waters.
• The project diverted the river and turned sterile land into arable land.
• With the Godavari river pumping, the lands have become delightful
• The aim is to utilise 170TMC of Godavari river water
• The Kaleshwaram Project is the jewel of Telangana 13 Districts in Telangana will benefit from this project
• This massive lift irrigation project executed in 28 packages
• There are seven mega links in this project
• Hyderabad will get 30TMCs of drinking water
• MEIL’s pumping system facilitates to lift the river
• No such scheme has ever built anywhere in the world
• Nowhere in the world, this kind of scheme built
• The uniqueness of this scheme is pumping the river from the downstream to the upstream
• 22 Pump houses built in 20 centres
• 15 out of 20 pumping stations built by MEIL
• Established 104 pumping machines at a record time
• Pumping water to a height of 518 meters in two stages
• 1850 kilometres of water supply constructions including tunnels and pipelines
• The total pumping capacity for the project is 5159 MW
• MEIL built 4439 MW pumping stations
• 17 in Medigadda Lakshmi, 12 in Annaram Saraswathi, 14 in Sundilla Parvathi and seven machines in Gayatri underground pump house in Package 8
• Four Machines in Annapurna, four machines in Ranganayakasagar, 12 machines in Kondapochamma two pump houses.
• The water storage capacity of the Mallanna Sagar Reservoir is 52 TMC
• Established eight machines at Mallannasagar pumping station
• Two pump houses in Package 21 have 18 machines
• Four machines, each installed in Package 27 & 28
• Completed water storage arrangements in 20 reservoirs
• Stabilised 37 lakh acres of ayacut
• Created 18 lakh acres of new ayacut
• Ten domestic and five international companies involved in this project execution along with MEIL
• Established six machines in Medigadda in a record time of 10 months
• 17 machines with a capacity of 680 MW have been set up at the Medigadda
• Lakshmi Pumphouse is a record Lakshmi, Saraswati and Parvati pump houses have 43 machines, each with a capacity of 40 MW.
• 1720 MW of power consumption under Link-1
• 7 Machines in world’s largest Gayatri Underground Pumphouse in the package 8
• There is no such pumping station anywhere else in the world
• Established with a capacity of 139 MW each unit‌
• Four machines in the Ranganayakasagar pumphouse set up with a capacity of 135 MW each
• The four machines at Annapurna Pumphouse have a capacity of 106 MW each
• Established 260 km of transmission lines in just two years
• Completion of six substations with a capacity of 400 – 220 kV in a very short period of time

Also Read: Lifting A River: The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme in Telangana

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