Authorities planning to provide irrigation to land in Vemulawada and Choppadandi segments
With the Sripada Yellampalli Project (SYP) receiving
copious inflows following the recent rains and authorities releasing the
surplus waters into the sea, the irrigation authorities have
intensified work on the second phase of the project by lifting the water
from the barrage to provide irrigation in the upland Vemulawada and
Choppadandi Assembly segments.
The authorities have
already constructed pump houses at Vemmunuru village in Ramagundam
mandal and Medaram in Dharmaram mandal and held a dry run successfully.
They also constructed a pump house at Gangadhara and are taking all
measures to conduct trial run for the lifting of water.
Minister
for Irrigation T. Harish Rao would be visiting Karimnagar district on
September 22 to conduct trial run of the pump houses for lifting waters
to fill the irrigation sources in Vemulawada and Choppadandi.
Yellampalli project SE Vijay Bhaskar Rao said that they had decided to
provide irrigation to 1.68 lakh acres in Karimnagar district from the
project. The SYP was receiving heavy inflows since July second week
onwards following good rainfall in its catchment area and release of
flood waters from the Kadem project in neighbouring Adilabad district.
Against the storage capacity of 20.175 tmc of water, the project
received water to full capacity and released the surplus flood waters
into the sea. The authorities are maintaining a capacity of 19.50 tmc in
the reservoir.
As several tmc of surplus flood
waters were released into the sea, the Minister for Irrigation had
instructed the officials to expedite the second phase of work of lifting
waters from the project to provide irrigation in Karimnagar district by
completing the construction of pump houses. A week ago, he had
personally inspected the works in Medaram pump house.
With
the SRSP receiving heavy inflows into the project, the SYP authorities
have decided to use the existing waters from the project for irrigation
requirements and intensified the pump house works. Accordingly, the SYP
authorities are taking all measures for the trial run of the pump houses
to fill the tanks in Vemulawada and Choppadandi segments and provide
irrigation to 40,000 acres in the first phase.
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