Korata-Chanaka barrage's wet run conducted successfully on state borders
ADILABAD: The long wait for the operation of the Korata- Chanaka barrage constructed on the state borders fructified with the wet run conducted successfully by the TS Irrigation Department.
The department concerned released 300 cusecs of water downstream from the barrage on Thursday night and on Friday morning.
News is that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would inaugurate the Korata-Chanaka barrage well before the election commission issues notification for the assembly polls.
Adilabad MLA Jogu Ramanna was in Hyderabad to meet KCR and KTR to request them to inaugurate the barrage.
The wet run was conducted to inform the people of the constituency that the government has completed the barrage as promised by KCR.
Official sources said the water will be given to the 16,000-acre land on either side of the main canal, a 43km distance from Adilabad Rural, Jainad and Bela mandals in the Adilabad assembly constituency.
They said the sub-canal works were pending at Neerala due to the delay in land acquisition. The works of the pump house that would lift and release water into the main canal were completed. Irrigation water could be given to the agricultural lands in Jamdapur, Chanda (T), Arli, and Landsanghi in Adilabad Rural mandal from now on.
Nearly 1.7 tmc water will be stored at the reservoir that will be filled by the lifting of water from the barrage at Pippalkoti.
The state government has revised the construction cost for the ongoing Korata-Chanaka barrage to Rs 795.94 crore. The barrage would provide water to 50,000 acres in the Jainad, Bela and Bheempur mandals in the Adilabad assembly constituency.
The project, with a storage capacity of 0.85tmc, was initially taken up with an outlay of Rs 350 crore but the cost escalated to Rs 500 crore later. The project has 23 pillars and 22 gates.
On Friday, municipal chairman Jogu Premender visited the barrage and asked officials to complete the works on a war footing so that the barrage could be inaugurated soon.
