Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao said that the main canal works of the project would be completed by July 30 and work was going on war footing to supply irrigation water through Enkur canal (18L).
The project was envisioned and launched by the former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in February, 2016 to ensure irrigation facilities for farmers in Khammam, Kothagudem and parts of Mahabubabad districts.
The Congress government had sanctioned Rs 72 crore to complete the nine km long Enkur link canal to connect Sitarama project with Nagarjuna Sagar project left canal.
In order to make immediate use of river Godavari waters in case of lack of water supply from river Krishna it was proposed to pump water into the NSP canal through a link canal.
Kothagudem: Government Whip and TRS district president Rega Kantha Rao inspected the ongoing works of Sitarama Lift Irrigation Project at Ammagaripalli in Aswapuram mandal in the district on Friday. The State government has taken up the ambitious project with an estimated cost of about Rs 26000 crore to irrigate agriculture lands in erstwhile Khammam and […]
The project, CM K Chandrashekhar Rao said, should be treated and viewed as an important irrigation scheme that would create a new ayacut and together with Nagarjuna Sagar ayacut, will provide water to 10 lakh acres.
