Sangareddy: SLIP, BLIP to provide irrigation water to 3.90 lakh acres in 400 villages
Sangareddy: Till recently, mothers in Narayankhed area in Sangareddy district used to make their children sit on traditional cots to give them a bath, and place a container under it to collect the water. The same water was used for other purposes since fetching a pot of water was very difficult in these parts of […]
Sangareddy: Till recently, mothers in Narayankhed area in Sangareddy district used to make their children sit on traditional cots to give them a bath, and place a container under it to collect the water. The same water was used for other purposes since fetching a pot of water was very difficult in these parts of Telangana. The women of Zaheerabad used to walk one to four km just to get a pot of water as the area had no prominent water sources. With the State government deciding to make river Manjeera perennial by getting Godavari water to Singur project, and lifting the water to every nook and corner of Sangareddy district by building Sangameshwara (SLIP) and Basaveshwara Lift Irrigation Projects (BLIP), all such hurdles would be thing of the past.
The two projects together will be taken up with an outlay of Rs 4,427. The SLIP and BLIP will together provide irrigation water to 3.90 lakh acres in about 400 villages of Andole, Narayankhed, Sangareddy and Zaheerabad Assembly constituencies of Sangareddy district. Under SLIP, the government will utilise 12TMCft of water while 8TMCft water will be used under BLIP.
To mark the beginning of the work, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will lay the foundation stone for both the SLIP and BLIP near Narayankhed town at 2 PM on Monday. Later, the Chief Minister will address a public meeting for which a large number of people from across Sangareddy district are expected to turn up.
Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that the Chief Minister had traveled to every nook and corner of the State during his four decades of political career. Since he knows about the issues faced by the people from these parts of Telangana, the Chief Minister always wanted to bring Godavari water to Manjeera to put a permanent end to the issues faced by the people here, he said.
The Godavari water will travel over 330-KM from Kaleshwaram to Singur via Anantha Sagar- Ranganayaka Sagar-Mallanna Sagar-Kondapochamma Sagar- from where the water will be drawn to meet the needs of Sangareddy district as part of the 19th Package of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS). As part of SLIP, the water KLIS water will reach Govindapur near Zaheerabad which is located 664.5 meters from sea level. It is probably going to the highest place the KLIS water would reach across Telangana.
SANGAMESHWARA: The Lift Irrigation project was named after the presiding deity of Kethaki Sangameshwara Swamy Temple located at Jharasangam.
The cost of the project is put at 2,653 crore, The project will provide irrigation water to 2.19 lakh acres in 231 villages in Zaheerabad, Sangareddy and Andole Assembly Constituencies. It will have three pumps which require a 140MW electricity supply. The water will be lifted to 147 meters from Singur. It will have 215-KM long canals under it. The government needs to acquire 6,293 acres for its canals.
BASAVESHWARA: Basaveshwara Project was named after Basaveshwara, a 12-th Century Statesman who is being idolised prominently by Lingayat Community in Narayankhed and Zaheerabad area. The cost of the project is put at Rs 1,774 crore. It will have 1.74 lakh acres of ayacut in 166 villages of Narayankhed and Andole Constituencies. The water will be lifted to 74.52 meters. The BLIP requires 70-MW of power. The length of the canals under the project is put at160-KM. The government needs to acquire 4,150 acres of land for the canals.
Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited, which is executing KLIS, bagged the contract for both the projects.
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