Hyderabad: The state government has completed a long- pending irrigation project, originally conceived in 1997 with the construction taken up in 2007, under Srisailam Left Bank canal popularly known as Alimineti Madhava Reddy Project.
It will irrigate 50,000 acres new ayacut and stabilise 30,000 acres in the existing lift schemes. Successive governments could not complete the project meant to 56 villages in three assembly segments of Nalgonda district.
Due to special efforts by the irrigation department, all the works have been completed and it is slated for inauguration on November 9 by irrigation minister T. Harish Rao.
This low-level canal scheme envisages drawing of water from Nagarjunasagar Dam when the dam level is above 575 ft (through gravity) and by lift whenever the level is low; 508-575 ft.
The irrigation department took up the pending works and completed it within two and half years’ time. Nagarjunasagar, Miryalaguda and Nalgonda Assembly segments will benefit from the scheme and water will be released for the Rabi crop. According to the dam’s chief engineer, S. Sunil, trial run for the 85 km long low level canal was successful.
