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
Updated On - 22 June 2021, 12:59 PM
- 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
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