KCR takes stock of Kaleshwaram project progress, directs officials to fill up all barrages

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has directed irrigation officials to put together undertaking-wise operational tips and to fill up all barrages in advance of summer season, immediately after visiting the Kaleshwaram elevate irrigation undertaking web pages on Tuesday.

Expressing contentment over the undertaking progress and water getting pumped into reservoirs/barrages, he instructed the officials involved to fill them all up.

On Tuesday, the CM, along with his spouse Shobha, visited the Laxmi Barrage created at Medigadda and paid tributes to the Godavari waters.

“The Telangana farming local community has confronted hardships for a long time. We had settled that once the Telangana Condition is fashioned, farmers should get adequate water source for two crops. We have strategised for the development of a barrage at a position immediately after rivers Godavari and Pranahita be a part of so that much more water for much more time can be pumped,” he reported.

In a assertion made immediately after the web site go to, Rao reported: “After a complex study, it was made a decision to assemble a barrage at Medigadda position. We have estimated that with 16.seventeen TMC (thousand million cubic ft) storage capacity, if the barrage is created on a one hundred MT height, water can be pumped for seven months in a calendar year. Construction has progressed as planned. Pumping is underway without the need of any challenge.

“Arrangements are getting made to source water to Nizam Sagar from Kaleshwaram. If want be, water will be pumped to the Sriram Sagar undertaking from Kaleshwaram. The Kaleshwaram undertaking has redrawn the irrigation map of Telangana.”