Tenders for three reservoirs under Devadula soon

Govt to construct 10 tmcft capacity reservoir at Lingampally village

Warangal: The State government will call for tenders for construction of three reservoirs – Uppugallu, Palakurthy and Chennur – under package 6 of the J Chokka Rao Devadula Lift Irrigation Project soon, Ministers Errabelli Dayakar Rao and Satyavathi Rathod said here on Sunday.

A 10 tmcft capacity reservoir would also be constructed as part of the lift irrigation project at Lingampally village in Station Ghanpur constituency to provide irrigation facility to upland areas in Jangaon district, they said.

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Addressing a review meeting on minor irrigation and JCR Devadula Project works in erstwhile Warangal district on Sunday, the Ministers said successive government in united Andhra Pradesh had neglected the Devadula Lift Irrigation Project.

“The lift irrigation project was initially proposed to irrigate 1,22,700 acres with a capacity of 5.18 tcmft. But it was neglected by successive governments. However, after the formation of Telangana State, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao redesigned the project to provide irrigation facility to 6.25 lakh acres utilising 60 tmcft of water from Godavari river. As part of this, the construction of the Sammakka-Saralamma barrage at Tupakulagudem was undertaken to lift Godavari water for nine months,” they said, adding that the present storage capacity under the Devadula outcrop was only eight tmcft.

“In view of this, the government will construct 10 tmcft capacity reservoir at Lingampally besides constructing the three other reservoirs,” they said and asked the officials to complete the pending land acquisition for construction of Devadula canals in all the constituencies including Narsampet, Parkal, Palakurthi and Janagaon at the earliest. They also added that check dams would be constructed in every constituency in erstwhile Warangal district wherever they are required.

MPs, MLAs, MLCs and officials including CMO Secretary Smita Sabharwal attended the meeting.