Manjeera Lift Irrigation Corporation Limited registered to take up SLIP, BLIP

Sangareddy: The State government has registered Manjeera Lift Irrigation Corporation Limited, which will execute the Sangameshwara Lift Irrigation Project (SLIP) and Basaveshwara Lift Irrigation Project (BLIP), as a company under the Companies Act 2013. The Irrigation and CAD Department issued GO MS Number 44 in this regard. As part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, […]

Sangareddy: The State government has registered Manjeera Lift Irrigation Corporation Limited, which will execute the Sangameshwara Lift Irrigation Project (SLIP) and Basaveshwara Lift Irrigation Project (BLIP), as a company under the Companies Act 2013.

The Irrigation and CAD Department issued GO MS Number 44 in this regard. As part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, the two lift projects in Sangareddy will lift water from Singur to cover the drinking and irrigation needs of almost the entire Sangareddy district.

Special Chief Secretary or Principal Secretary of Irrigation department will be the chairman of the Corporation while Engineer-in-Chief (General), Engineer-in-Chief (Irrigation) Gajwel, Additional Secretary (Finance Department, Chief Engineer (Irrigation) Sangareddy and Joint Secretary I&CAD Department will act as directors of the company.

The functional areas of the Corporation will be limited to SLIP and BLIP initially. After completing the works, the assets and projects will be handed over to the Corporation. The Corporation will have a paid-up capital of Rs one crore.

The elected representatives and farmers of the Sangareddy district have welcomed the decision of the Telangana government. The SLIP and BLIP together will be taken up with a budget of Rs 4,023 crores. As part of these lift irrigation projects, irrigation water will be provided 4 lakh acres covering 400 villages in 20 mandals of Sangareddy, Andole, Narayankhed, Zaheerabad Assembly Constituencies of Sangareddy district.

Speaking to Telangana Today, District Cooperative and Marketing Society Chairman Malkapuram Shiva Kumar thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Finance Minister T Harish Rao for the move. He has said that the people of Sangareddy will remain indebted to the Chief Minister for coming up with such a wonderful project which will put an end to the drinking and irrigation needs of the district.

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