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Irrigation officials have begun releasing water from the Singur multipurpose project to facilitate repair works recommended by the National Dam Safety Review Panel. Storage will be reduced over the next 30 to 40 days while experts assess damage to the dam and embankment.

During an inspection of the Singur reservoir, GRMB Chairman B P Pandya directed irrigation officials to strictly implement NDSA guidelines to ensure dam safety. The team reviewed infrastructure including crest gates and the GENCO power plant, and discussed water storage and release patterns.

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.

Since Pulkal area received heavy rain for the past three days, the canal was filled with rainwater

Tweleve mandals in Siddipet received more than 100 mm of rainfall during the period, while two mandals in Medak recorded more than 100 mm of rainfall

The multipurpose project was receiving 3,377 cusecs. The project had 14.32 TMCft of water against its full capacity of 29.91TMCft on Sunday morning.

State government made no budget allocations for SLIP and BLIP that were envisaged to provide irrigation and drinking water to Sangareddy district.

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.