Harish Rao Says 'It would help the farming community'

Minister for Irrigation T. Harish Rao has said that the Kaleshwaram Lift irrigation project (KLIP) would completely eradicate drought and solve the drinking water problem in the Telangana.

Stating that they were expediting the project for completion in this year, he said the KLIP had set a record by completing 7,139 cubic meters of concrete works at Medigadda barrage across the river Godavari on a single day on Sunday.

The first result of the KLIP would be the benefit to integrated Karimnagar district with round-the-year availability of water in the Mid Manair Dam and Lower Manair Dam projects, to provide water for irrigation. It would help the farming community to take up two crops and emerge as the rice bowl of Telangana, he said. He also reminded that CWC chairman S. Masood Hussain was all praise for the biggest irrigation project of the country.The Minister participated in the laying of foundation stone for the construction of feeder channel at a cost of ?86 lakh on the flood flow canal in Nagula Mallial village of Kothapalli mandal on Sunday.

The completion of the feeder channel would ensure water into the minor irrigation tanks of Nagula Mallial, Asifnagar, Khazipur and Baddipelli villages and provide irrigation sources to 1,200 acres. Besides, the MMD left canal would provide irrigation facilities to 2,200 acres in those four villages. The water from MMD would also help filling up of tanks in Elgandal and Kamanpur villages.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that the Congress had taken up the MMD project in 2007, but failed to complete it till 2014. It was the TRS government which had completed the project within two to three years and ensured the storage of 26 tmcs of water, he claimed.He also complimented Karimnagar legislator G. Kamalakar for striving hard for the sanction of feeder channel across the flood flow canal to ensure water to the villages in the region.Karimnagar legislator G. Kamalakar, MLC Naradasu Laxman Rao, ZP chairperson Tula Uma, MPP Ramesh were also present.