KTR accused the Congress government of hypocrisy for calling the Kaleshwaram project a scam while using its water for new schemes. He alleged inflated project costs, misuse of funds, and delays intended to harm Telangana’s interests, vowing to expose the corruption
While Uttam Kumar Reddy was addressing the gathering, a few women raised their voice and questioned the Minister over the delay in completion of the Narayanpur reservoir works
BRS leader criticized Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy for not understanding the facts and continuing to criticize Chandrashekhar Rao, which he said only made people laugh.
Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy said water for irrigation would be supplied to each and every acre by completing all pending irrigation projects on a war-footing in the erstwhile Karimnagar district.
This model aims to maximize financial gains from sediment management activities. On Wednesday, the government issued a GO stating that the initiative would align with the National Framework for Sediment Management Guidelines by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India. The state policy for desilting operations will focus on major and medium projects that have been losing storage capacity annually due to sedimentation.
Speaking to mediapersons at Telangana Bhavan on Monday, Vinod Kumar said Revanth Reddy was speaking without understanding the objective of the Kaleshwaram project
The inflows into common irrigation projects of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana remained almost dismal last year and there was no let up in the situation so far this year.
The government has laid focus on education and was ready to allocate as much funds as needed in the State budget. Funds were allocated in the vote-on-account budget for the construction of concrete buildings for all residential schools, he noted.
Challenging Chandrashekhar Rao to a debate on the handing over of the irrigation projects during the forthcoming Assembly session, Revanth Reddy said a white paper would be released on the irrigation sector.
All the three projects were cleared during the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting chaired by Jal Shakti Ministry Secretary Pankaj Kumar in New Delhi.
Water levels in at least eight major irrigation projects in the Godavari and Krishna basins in the State crossed 94 per cent of the Current Storage Capacity
For effective operation and management of irrigation projects, the Irrigation department is mulling over formulating a new and comprehensive Irrigation Act soon.
