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SRSP farmers happy again
After two successive years of drought, finally it bodes well for the farmers under the ayacut of Sri Ramsagar Sagar Project (SRSP), the lifeline of north Telangana, courtesy, heavy rainfall in upstream catchment areas.
​Warangal/Nizamabad/Karimnagar/Adilabad: After two successive years of drought, finally it bodes well for the farmers under the ayacut of Sri Ramsagar Sagar Project (SRSP), the lifeline of north Telangana, courtesy, heavy rainfall in upstream catchment areas.
This comes in as a huge relief for the farmers who experienced a torrid time with the 90-TMC Ft capacity SRSP going defunct with its water reserves falling to dead storage levels for the last two seasons.
After that not too impressive 2013-14 season where it had barely catered to half of the irrigation needs of the ayacut, the project looked like an empty bowl as it had only received 14 TMC Ft in 2014-15 and 3 TMC Ft in 2015-16.
However, with continuous inflows for the last fortnight or so, the water level in the project has reached 1,077 feet (45.7 TMC Ft) as against its full reservoir level of 1,091 ft (90 TMC Ft) on Wednesday. When the reports last came in, the project was receiving inflows around 25,000 cusecs.
With Nasik, Ahmed Nagar and Aurangabad regions in Maharashtra receiving heavy downpours for the last few days, the inflows in Godavari are expected to rise, according to the Central Water Commission.
As the projects located above the SRSP and below the Jaikwad Project have been full to the brim, and with more rains in the offing, this kharif looks promising for the north Telangana districts, especially for the farmers in Karimnagar district.
It may be mentioned here that Karimnagar is the major beneficiary of the SRSP waters as it accounts for more than half of the command area with 5.40 lakh acres.
Against this backdrop, Ministers Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Eatala Rajender on Wednesday have released 2,200 cusecs each into Flood Flow Canal (FFC) and Kakatiya Canal to cater to the irrigation needs of Karimnagar and Warangal districts.
Besides catering the irrigation needs, the 24-TMC Ft-capacity Lower Manair Dam (LMD), which gets water through FFC, also addresses drinking water needs of Karimnagar, Sircilla, Vemulawada, Siddipet and Warangal cities.
This apart, the authorities have released 100 cusecs of water into Saraswathi Canal which irrigates 22,000 acres in Adilabad district and 200 cusecs into Laxmi Canal in Nizamabad under which around 35,000 acres are irrigated. Meanwhile, authorities lifted four gates of the Yellampalli Irrigation Project releasing 40,000 cusecs of water.
With heavy rains lashing Adilabad district, the project has been receiving abundant inflows to the tune of 30,000 cusecs. So was Kadem project. The authorities lifted six gates of the project to release surplus waters.
