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Brainstorming session today
The Telangana State Irrigation Department is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the much-talked-about “Mission Kakatiya”- the lake restoration programme – continues smoothly as the second phase is set to commence from January.
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MISSION KAKATIYA
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Irrigation Department is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the much-talked-about “Mission Kakatiya”- the lake restoration programme – continues smoothly as the second phase is set to commence from January. A day-long workshop will be held at JNTU Auditorium in Kukatpally on Monday. Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao and engineering officials of different ranks will participate.
- Meeting is held as second phase of lake restoration works is set to begin from January next
- It is intended to get feedback from the engineering staff engaged in works and seek their suggestions to further improve the operation
The sole objective is to get feedback from engineering staff during the first phase and also problems they encountered. The Minister intends to seek the suggestions of the engineering staff for betterment of the drive in future. According to a senior engineering official, this workshop will help them devise a foolproof plan for the second phase. He pointed out that groundwork for the next phase will begin soon with selection and survey works in all districts being completed.
This would be followed by preparing estimates and according sanctions, the official said. The first phase of works would be completed at any cost by December. The second phase works will see restoration of 9000-odd water bodies. The works will begin in the New Year, he added. In the first phase, the department could take up revival works on nearly 7,500 out of the 9,400 lakes. Removal of silt, mowing of long grass and weeds, bund repairs and widening, restoration of feeder channels, and FTL demarcation works were completed on 6,500 lakes.
