Nizamabad to get water plan soon

HYDERABAD: With irrigation projects, especially Nizamsagar and Singur, receiving poor inflows this monsoon, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has asked officials to prepare a comprehensive plan to supply water for irrigation and drinking purposes in all villages in the erstwhile Nizamabad district.
The chief minister held a meeting with the legislators belonging to Nizamabad in the chambers of speaker P Srinivas Reddy, who also belongs to Nizamabad district, on Thursday and instructed the officials to come up with alternative and temporary plans to meet the requirements of the erstwhile district region.KCR said he would visit the district in October for two days and try to resolve the issues pertaining to irrigation water, drinking water and podu land (land under shifting cultivation) in the erstwhile district, which has been bifurcated into Nizamabad and Kamareddy.
The CM said since Sri Ram Sagar Project (SRSP) was linked to the Kaleswaram project, there would not be any problem to SRSP aycut (land irrigated under the project) in future. He said water should be supplied to Armoor, Balkonda and Banswada Assembly constituencies through lifts as was done at Gutpha and Ali Sagar irrigation schemes.
“The irrigation department has to get the survey done and prepare estimates, find out where to put lifts and to what extent of land water can be supplied in the villages,” KCR said. He said since the government has decided to fill SRSP with 90 tmc ft, water should be supplied to the maximum extent from SRSP to the ayucut.
KCR said though tanks and reservoirs in the state were brimming to capacity, both Singur and Nizamsagar did not get adequate inflows. The CM said water should be drawn from various sources, including HMWS, Pargi, Komati Banda, SRSP and other sources and supply to the villages. In other places, water should be supplied through tankers or borewells. He predicted that the problem would be there only this year and by the next year, water would be supplied from Mallanna Sagar.