INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, on a visit to Laxmi barrage, a part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) at
Medigadda in Mahadevpur mandal of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Tuesday, along with his wife Shobha, ministers and other leaders paid
floral tributes to Godavari waters at the bathing ghat.He directed officials to fill up tanks and reservoirs with water stored now at
full-level at the barrage for supply during summer
He expressed happiness on seeing the project brimming with water and said a strategy was being finalised to construct a barrage at a point
Mid-Manair, LMD, Mallanna Sagar, Kondapochamma Sagar, Baswapur and Gandhamalla Reservoirs every year and arrangements are being made to
officials from other departments who toiled round-the-clock, including during peak summer, for the completion of the project
He instructed them to prepare project-wise operational guidelines and implement them
it was decided to construct a barrage at Medigadda
We estimated that with 16.17 TMC storage capacity if a barrage is constructed on a height of 100 metres, water can be pumped for seven
construction was expedited as planned
Pumping of water is going on without any problem
From Medigadda, water is stored till 54 kms in Pranahita and 42 kms in Godavari rivers
Secretary Somesh Kumar, DGP M
Mahender Reddy, Principal Secretary (Water Resources) Rajat Kumar, CM Secretary Smita Sabharwal, Peddapalli MP Venkatesh Neta, government
