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TRS Govt's Mission Kakatiya Off to a great Start
TRS Govt\'s Mission Kakatiya Off to a great Start Mission Kakatiya was launched on Thursday by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao who participated in the removal of silt from a tank at Sadashivanagar in Nizamabad district.
One of the flagship programmes of the government aimed at restoration of irrigation tanks across Telangana State, Mission Kakatiya was launched on Thursday by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao who participated in the removal of silt from a tank at Sadashivanagar in Nizamabad district.
To mark the occasion, KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, accompanied by Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao and other cabinet colleagues unveiled a pylon.
Over the next four years, the government plans to restore 46,000 tanks at an estimated cost of Rs.25, 000 crore. Mission Kakatiya was named as a tribute to the Kakatiya dynasty rulers, who built various number of irrigation tanks in Telangana.
KCR said that Kakatiya rulers had built 80,000 tanks which although were not destroyed by successive rulers but rulers from Andhra destroyed them during the last 60 years. The Chief Minister said the water bodies would be de-silted by the government and the farmers would take away the silt.
During the movement for statehood to Telangana, KCR had promised to restore all the tanks and now has asked public representatives to supervise the restoration works.
Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao said 9,573 tanks would be revived this year and the government has allocated Rs.2, 083 crore in the budget for the period 2015-16 presented in the assembly on Wednesday. Mr Harish Rao said that Mission Kaktiya would be considered as the biggest project of its kind ever undertaken in history of the country.
