The amendment to Gazette facilitates largescale diversion of Krishna water outside basin from Srisailam while limiting Telangana from diverting inside the basin.
Nagarkurnool: For the first time this monsoon season, Srisailam project is getting inflows with irrigation department releasing water from Jurala project into downstream. Following heavy rains in the upstream areas of Karnataka, Jurala project is receiving inflows from Almatti and Narayanpur projects. Accordingly, the water level in Jurala project has reached the full reservoir level […]
Karimnagar: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that drastic changes have taken place in rural areas with the availability of irrigation water following the completion of various irrigation projects in the state. Not only availability of irrigation water, ground water levels, variety of crops, greenery, flora and fauna and biodiversity would be developed with the […]
Hyderabad: Telangana has requested Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to look into the urgent needs of in-basin areas of the State and take initiative to undo the injustice meted out to those areas. It also urged shifting of Jurala project and its components from Schedule-2 to Schedule-3 of the gazette notification. In a letter to […]
Hyderabad: With the gazette notification on projects’ 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 Pedda Vagu project on Godavari on a pilot basis. The Telangana government has already requested the Centre to postpone implementation of […]
Hyderabad: Officials of Irrigation department opened 26 gates of Priyadarshini Jurala Project (PJP) and releasing 1.80 lakh cusecs of water downstream. The water released from Jurala project would reach Srirailam Dam and if the same inflows continue into the Srisailam dam, officials might lift the gates soon. The project is receiving 1.80 lakh cusecs of […]
Till 6 p.m on Monday, Jurala project received 1.23 lakh cusecs, and authorities lifted 20 gates to release 1.51 lakh cusecs of water downstream to Srisailam
The current water level in the project is 318.40 metres against FRL capacity of 318.51 meters. In terms of storage capacity, the current storage is 9.41 tmc against full storage of 9.65 tmc.
As part of Palamuru-Ranga Reddy lift irrigation project, Koil Sagar, Jurala projects and other tanks and lakes would be filled up with Srisailam backwaters, the Minister informed
