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Aristotle Comedian Username: Aristotle Post Number: 1401 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 167.230.96.11 Rating: N/A |
Claimed to be the costliest irrigation project to be taken up by any State till date with an estimated cost of �80,500 crore// How about polavaram? | ||
Aristotle Comedian Username: Aristotle Post Number: 1400 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 167.230.96.11 Rating: N/A |
What’s the project? The Kaleshwaram project is an off-shoot of the original Pranahitha-Chevella Lift Irrigation Scheme taken up by the Congress government in 2007 when Andhra Pradesh was not divided. After the formation of Telangana in 2014, the TRS government redesigned the project on the ground that the original plan had too many environmental obstacles and had very low water storage provision — only about 16.5 tmc ft. After conducting a highly advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) survey for a couple of months, the government separated the original component serving the Adilabad area as the Pranahitha project and renamed the rest as Kaleshwaram by redesigning the head works, storage capacity and the canal system based on the data of availability of water at different locations along the course of the Godavari and its tributaries. The Kaleshwaram project has provision for the storage of about 148 tmc ft with plans of utilising 180 tmc ft by lifting at least 2 tmc ft water every day for 90 flood days. | ||
Aristotle Comedian Username: Aristotle Post Number: 1399 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 167.230.96.11 Rating: |
if anything is at stake for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government in the youngest State of the country for the next elections due in 2019, it is the execution of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP). Why is it important? Claimed to be the costliest irrigation project to be taken up by any State till date with an estimated cost of ₹80,500 crore, the project holds the key to the TRS government’s promise of providing irrigation facility to one crore acres of land under all projects/tanks. The government has already spent ₹10,000 crore on the project, including land acquisition, and has allocated ₹7,000 crore in the current budget, besides tying up a ₹7,400 crore loan from a consortium of banks. Notwithstanding its share of controversies, particularly related to land acquisition for the Mallannasagar reservoir, one of the key components of the project for storage of 50 tmc ft water, the project is making swift progress. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/in-telangana -a-unique-irrigation-project/article19194414.ece |
