Telangana has sought an early NOC from Chhattisgarh for the Sammakka Sagar Project to enable full reservoir storage and realise irrigation benefits. Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy assured compensation for land and houses affected by submergence in Chhattisgarh.
Continuous rains in Mulugu and Bhupalpally districts have triggered floods, leaving a car driver missing in Jampannavagu, disrupting coal production at Singareni mines, and causing heavy inflows into Medigadda Barrage and Sammakka Sagar Project. Roads and transport links have been washed away, prompting officials to issue flood alerts.
Chhattisgarh has granted in-principle NOC for Telangana’s Sammakka Sagar Project on the Godavari River. The project will stabilise irrigation, provide safe drinking water, and benefit multiple districts, with Telangana funding compensation, land acquisition, and resettlement
No headway could be made for quite some time in the efforts made by Telangana for obtaining CWC clearance for Sammakka Sagar project because of the submergence fears voiced by Chhattisgarh
Officials from Telangana have assured their counterparts from Chhattisgarh that the gross storage in the project would be maintained at 80 meter level only
Kothagudem: The water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district has been receding and came down to 52.9 feet at 8.35 am on Tuesday with the decrease in flood inflow from upstream projects. As a result the third warning has been withdrawn and the second warning was in force as the river was […]
