The State government is preparing to conduct a dry run of the pump houses of the Anjanagiri reservoir located at Narlapur in the formerly mahabubnagar district less than 24 hours after receiving the Expert Appraisal Committee's (EAC) approval for environmental clearance to the palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS). If all goes according to plan, the officials may start running the operation by the end of August.
Agriculture minister S. Niranjan reddy made this announcement on friday and invited farmers and BRS staff to plan celebrations at all of the reservoirs covered by PRLIS. Celebrations will be held at the Narlapur, Yedula, Vattem, Karvena, and Uddandapur reservoirs to congratulate chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao for the Palamuru-Rangareddy project's development, which would permanently benefit farmers in the three former districts of mahabubnagar, Rangareddy, and Nalgonda.

On friday, S. Niranjan reddy, the minister of agriculture, made this declaration and encouraged farmers and BRS personnel to organize festivities at all of the reservoirs covered by PRLIS. The development of the Palamuru-Rangareddy project, which would permanently benefit farmers in the three former districts of mahabubnagar, Rangareddy, and Nalgonda, will be celebrated at the Narlapur, Yedula, Vattem, Karvena, and Uddandapur reservoirs.

Additionally, the Veeranjaneya barrage at Yedula, which has a storage capacity of 6.55 tmc and can stabilize about 50,000 acres of ayacut, was built in a record-breaking 24 months. 1,299 people who were fired by the state government have already received compensation totaling Rs 205 crore. 1.39 lakh acres of new ayacut would be provided by the Venkatadri reservoir in Vattem. A new ayacut of 1.5 lakh acres would be created by the Kurumurthy Raya reservoir in Karivena, which has the maximum storage capacity of 19 tmc. The Uddandapur reservoir, which will have a storage capacity of 16.03 tmc, would produce the greatest ayacut under the PRLIS, at 9.36 lakh acres.
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12/08/2023 08:22 AM