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A team of the department officials led by Rajiv Ratan, Director General (vigilance) visited the project site and interacted with the engineers of the project.

The vigilance officials took up search operations in the offices of the three engineers-in-chief associated with the implementation of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme right from its conception

Top officials of the Irrigation Department made it clear that the investigation as well as the rehabilitation would solely be the responsibility of the implementation agency.

An extent of 3,786 acres of area was to be submerged by the barrage at Thummidihetti and the affected areas happened to be the strongholds of the BJP cadres

"Finally, we have decided to opt for diamond cutting method. A private agency has been entrusted with the job and already the agency’s team has arrived”, Muralidhar told a group of newsmen visiting the project

Many were seen standing in queues much before the scheduled time of 10 a.m. for commencement of the programme.

The division bench dealing with a PIL case filed by G Niranjan, Congress leader and TPCC vice president, seeking directions to transfer the complaint made before Mahadevapuram Police station to the CBI/Serious Fraud Investigation Organisation on the issue at the Medigadda Barrage

Chief Minister also asked the officials to furnish all the details on the expenditure incurred in construction of different irrigation projects during the previous BRS government rule

Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy directed the officials to make arrangements for his visit to the project site, along with the engineers, officials and the contract agencies concerned

The institutions that have been tasked with the study are expected to give their recommendations very soon, according to Irrigation officials

The barrage pillars will be repaired and brought back to the previous condition as per the instructions and advice of the Central Dam Safety Authority, they said. 

The hue and cry over the sagging of a few piers of the Medigadda Barrage is part of a bigger conspiracy that can be attributed to vested interests in Andhra Pradesh, said V Prakash Rao

Kaleshwaram was a scheme with multiple reservoirs, multiple pump houses and canal networks that stretched for kilometres, and not just one barrage, said KTR

The coffer dam, a temporary structure which can help maintain a dry work area for taking up the rehabilitation work in the affected stretches of the structure, would be built covering the impacted stretches due to sinking of the piers in Block no 7 for diverting water.

In a point-by-point rebuttal of the NDSA report, Rajat Kumar dashed off a letter to NDSA chairman Sanjay Kumar Sibal terming the report that was communicated to the State government in a hasty manner "an indictment of the Kaleshwaram project".

The six-member committee did not complete even 10 percent of its job to arrive at any conclusion on the factors that led the piers to sink.

The barrage had been constructed by L&T Construction, as per the design provided by authorities to the quality and standards for Telangana and handed over in 2019.

They perceived that the report had been "hastily compiled under pressure” from powers-that-be to give a political colour, while overlooking key submissions by the state.

Demanding an unconditional apology from Revanth Reddy, Engineers associations wanted him to withdraw his remarks against Engineer-in-Chief (General) C Muralidhar of the Irrigation Department in connection with sinking of the Medigadda barrage piers

National Dam Safety Authority had sought information in detail on 20 items related to the construction of the project as listed by it latest by October 29