The irrigation department will release 0.35 TMCft of water to meet the Yasangi needs of farmers. Ghanpur Anicut had 40,000 acres of ayacut under both the left and right canals.
When farmer Manne Lingaiah (65) lost hope of getting rain after an extended dry spell, he hired a water tanker by spending Rs.2,000 on each trip to save his paddy nursery.
The SLIP is proposed to lift water from the Singur reservoir — built across River Manjira in Pulkal mandal of Sangareddy district — to irrigate 2.19 lakh acres in Sangareddy, Andole and Zaheerabad Assembly constituencies.