KCR rejigs Kaleshwaram project design

KCR rejigs Kaleshwaram project design
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In a fresh development, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has \'redesigned\' Kaleshwaram for optimum utilisation of Godavari water. A new link canal will come up between Kakatiya canal and Sri Ramsagar Project flood flow canal to ensure providing irrigation facility to 2.51 lakh acres additionally in the three districts of Telangana state.

Hyderabad: In a fresh development, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has 'redesigned' Kaleshwaram for optimum utilisation of Godavari water. A new link canal will come up between Kakatiya canal and Sri Ramsagar Project flood flow canal to ensure providing irrigation facility to 2.51 lakh acres additionally in the three districts of Telangana state.

Under the prestigious irrigation project, the government had proposed creation of new irrigation facility in 18 lakh acres and stabilise in another 18 lakh acres. The new link canal will help to increase irrigation facility up to 21 lakh acres in future.

This new canal will also reduce the use of power consumption to lift water and create irrigation facility up to the tail-end areas also. Irrigation department has already finalised the proposals for taking up the canal works. The new link canal on a stretch of 3 km will be constructed from flood flow canal from Rampalli village of Gangadhara mandal in Karimnagar district to Kakatiya canal in Tatipalli village of Malial mandal in Jagityal district.

Top officials of the Irrigation department said that KCR had proposed the construction of the new link canal to address water crisis in Karimnagar, Peddapalli and Jagtial districts. The link canal is part of the 8th package of Kaleshwaram project.

In the earlier plan under Kaleshwaram, it required to construct lift schemes, including pump houses and power supply network to lift water from SRSP to Kakatiya canal for a stretch of nearly 100 km for irrigation needs in the drought-affected districts.

Under the new plan, water will be shifted from flood flow to Kakatiya canal by the new link canal through gravity. The irrigation officials said 76 acres of land is required for taking up the new link canal works.

Under the new scheme, 24 sub-canals will also be constructed for the supply of water to all agricultural lands during farming season.

“Several alternatives were studied, and final alignment was fixed for the shortest length with minimum structures. The total water requirement to supplement 2.51 lakh acres for one crop period for 120 days is worked out as 25 tmc ft,” officials said. On the instructions of the Chief Minister, Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao began exercise to take up the works at a cost of Rs 43.2 crore. The new canal will be completed this financial year itself.

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