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Hyderabad: State Advisor on Lift Irrigation Schemes K Penta Reddy on Friday allayed fears over damage to the pump houses of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) which are flooded due to heavy inflows into Godavari River and its tributaries. Terming the heavy rains and floods as a natural disaster which occurs once in 100 years, […]
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Hyderabad: As many as 115 people including 60 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), civil police and officials from the Irrigation department were stuck at the control room at Lakshmi barrage on Godavari River in Medigadda of Jayashankar Bhupalapalli district on Thursday after heavy inflows started reaching it. The CRPF personnel, who were deployed for the […]
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Mancherial: An IAF chopper air lifted two shepherds stranded in the overflowing Godavari river on the outskirts of Somanpalli village in Chennur mandal on Thursday. The air force chopper was pressed into service after the local MLA Balka Suman sought help of Municipal Administration minister K T Rama Rao in rescuing the two sheperds. Accordingly, […]
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Mancherial: Collector Bharati Hollikeri said that the district administration would take full-fledged measures for the convenience of families affected by the incessant rains. She along with local MLA Nadipelli Diwakar Rao visited flood-hit NTR Nagar, Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) and Sripada Yellampalli sagar project on Wednesday. Stating the people dwelling in the low-lying areas […]
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Hyderabad: The world’s single largest underground tunnel in the irrigation sector and also Asia’s largest vertical surge pool in the Devadula Lift Irrigation Scheme, have been inundated due to rising water levels in Godavari River. Due to the flood, the works of the tunnel, pump house and surge pool in Segment-3 have been disrupted. Incessant […]
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Hyderabad: With incessant rains in the upper basin of Godavari River in Telangana, all the reservoirs as well as most of the water bodies in the river basin are filled to the brim. Subsequently, the Irrigation department is now focusing on restoring the water levels in various water bodies by releasing water downstream depending on […]
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Jagtial: A four member team of NDRF reached Bornapalli to rescue agricultural labourers stranded in a Kurru (Island) located in the middle of Godavari river as water in the river flowing at danger level following the release of water from Sri Ram Sagar Project. Tribal farm labourers from Bornapalli of Raikal mandal went to Kurru […]
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Jagtial: Nine agricultural laborers including three women and a boy were stranded in a Kurru (Island) located in the middle of Godavari river as water flow in the river increased following the release of water from Sri Ram Sagar Project. Tribal farm labourers from Bornapalli of Raikal mandal went to Kurru three days ago to […]
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Bhupalpally: Irrigation officials have lifted 10 gates of the Lakshmi barrage (Medigadda) built across the Godavari river in Mahadevpur mandal in the district on Sunday to let off 14,210 cusecs of water following heavy inflows into barrage from the upper catchment areas from Maharashtra through the Pranahita River that joins the Godavari River near Kaleshwaram. […]
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Mancherial: MLA Nadipelli Diwakar Rao said that the long pending dream of a bridge across Godavari river between Mancherial and Anthargao of Peddapalli district would be realised soon. He addressed pressmen here on Monday. Diwakar Rao said that the government accorded administrative sanction to the high-level bridge to be created at an estimated cost of […]
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Jagtial: Unable to cope up with age-related ailments, a 93-year-old man committed suicide by jumping into Godavari river at Rayapatnam bridge, Dharmapuri mandal. According to police, Dornala Rajireddy from Kachireddypalli, Ramadugu mandal of Karimnagar district, was suffering from age-related health issues for the past few years. Rajireddy, who went from the home on April 8, […]
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Peddapalli: Even as the majority of farmers in the State have ditched the old practice of growing the vegetables, fruits and root vegetables in a piece of land available in the surrounding of their respective houses due to various reasons, a farmer from Munjampally of Palakurthy mandal in Peddapalli district is trying to impress upon […]
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Hyderabad: Lambasting the BJP-led Central government for announcing inter-linking of rivers without taking the States into confidence, Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Monday demanded that the Centre immediately finalise the river water allocations to Telangana State and permit the proposed projects on Godavari River. Unless the water needs of Telangana are met, the State […]
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Nirmal: This Monday would remain as one of the contented days in the lives of five fishermen belonging to the neighboring Nizamabad district as they displayed exemplary courage and rescued three persons of a family who attempted to commit suicide by plunging into Godavari river near temple town Basar. Basar sub inspector U Mahesh said […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao inaugurated the mammoth Mallanna Sagar reservoir, which was constructed as part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS), and dedicated it to the nation on Wednesday. He performed a special puja at the reservoir before releasing the Godavari River water into Mallanna Sagar on the Tukkapur Surge Pool. Here […]
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Mancherial: In a tragic incident, three Intermediate students drowned in Pranahita when they tried to swim in the tributary of Godavari river on the outskirts of Alugama village in Kotapalli mandal on Monday. Their bodies are yet to be traced. Chennur Rural Inspector K Nagaraju said the deceased were identified as Ambala Vamshivardhan (16), Ambala […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday directed the Irrigation officials to submit the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) pertaining to irrigation projects proposed on Godavari River to the Central Water Commission (CWC) immediately and obtain necessary permissions to take up the works. He asserted that the DPR on Dr BR Ambedkar Pranahitha Project should […]
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Hyderabad: Jal Shakti (MoJS) Secretary Pankaj Kumar on Tuesday assured that the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of half a dozen irrigation projects in Telangana on Godavari River would be cleared soon. He gave this assurance during a video conference with the Chief Secretaries of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Somesh Kumar and Sameer Sharma, respectively, on […]
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Kothagudem: The ashes of four farmers and a journalist, who were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in Uttar Pradesh, were immersed in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district on Friday. The ashes were brought from the respective places of the victims from Uttar Pradesh by All India Agriculture Workers Union (AIAWU) leaders for […]
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Hyderabad: With the gazette notification on projects’s control issued by the Union Jal Shakti Ministry coming into force on October 14, the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) has proposed to supervise the operations of Peda Vagu project on Godavari River on a pilot basis. The Telangana government has already requested the Centre to postpone implementation […]
