Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, on a visit to Laxmi barrage, a part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) at Medigadda in Mahadevpur mandal of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Tuesday, along with his wife Shobha, ministers and other leaders paid floral tributes to Godavari waters at the bathing ghat.
He directed officials to fill up tanks and reservoirs with water stored now at full-level at the barrage for supply during summer. He expressed happiness on seeing the project brimming with water and said a strategy was being finalised to construct a barrage at a point after river Godavari and Pranahita join so more water can be pumped for a longer time.
Water from Medigadda will reach Yellampalli, Mid-Manair, LMD, Mallanna Sagar, Kondapochamma Sagar, Baswapur and Gandhamalla Reservoirs every year and arrangements are being made to supply water to Nizam Sagar from Kaleshwaram, Mr Rao said.
“Kaleshwaram project had redrawn the irrigation map…
