10,000 acres of agricultural lands would get irrigation facility

After success in ensuing irrigation facility to tail-end areas under left canal of Nasagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP), another initiative is on the cards to fill village tanks located from Darmavaram to Kannekal by setting up feeder channels and to provide irrigation facility to 10,000 acres located between Peddavoora and Tirumalagiri by pumping water from SLBC low level canal at Pottichelma.

When farmers of Darmapauram village met Minister for Power and SC Development G Jagdish Reddy and requested him to provide irrigation facility to agricultural lands in tail-end areas, he discussed the issue with officials of NSP and Irrigation Department to prepare plans to see that not a single acre of land under NSP left canal was left.Following the instruction of the Minister, officials are preparing a proposal and will send it to the State government in one or two days for administrative sanction.

In the first proposal, it is bieng planned to lift water from SLBC lower canal at Pottichelma and provide irrigation facility to farmers in Chalakurthi, Kunkuduchettu thanda, Srirampuram, Jana Reddy Colony, Davunuthala, Das thanda, Chuttupeta thanda, Rangunda, Tirumalagiri, Yellapuram, Yellapuram thanda, Kompelli, Boyagudem and Rajavaram village, which are located between Peddavoora and Tirumalgiri.In all, 10,000 acres of agricultural lands would get irrigation facility in the area, if project was implemented.

The farmers in the tail-end area have been denied of irrigation facility for decades. Agriculture in these villages would get a boost if the proposal was turned into reality.In the second plan, it is proposed to fill village tanks – Mamilla Kunta Cheruvu, Modugula kunta, Oora Cheruvu, Numoni Kunta, Ragi Bavi kunta, Nagula cheruvu and Reddy cheruvu, all under Madgulapally mandal, by developing feeder channels.Chief Engineer of Nagarjuna Sagar Project S Sunil told Telangana Today,the estimated cost of pumping water from low level canal of SLBC to provide irrigation facility in tail-end areas under NSP left canal to ayacut was Rs 1.4 crore.  The estimated cost for setting up of chak to D-37 distributory canal was Rs 3 lakh, he added.

He said the Minister for Power had instructed the officials at a review meeting which was recently held to complete the works within two months. After getting the administrative approval, we would take up the works, he added.